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Even in this place in the former pleadings Quintus Hortensius complained that the
young Junius came clad in his praetexta 1 into your presence, and stood with his
uncle while he was giving his evidence; and said that I was seeking to rouse the
popular feeling, and to excite odium against him, by producing the boy. What then
was there, O Hortensius, to rouse the popular feeling? what was there to excite
odium in that boy, I suppose, forsooth, I had brought forward the son of Gracchus,
or of Saturninus, or of some man of that sort, to excite the feelings of an ignorant
multitude by the mere name and recollection of his father. He was the son of Publius
Junius, one of the common people of Rome;
whom his dying father thought he ought to recommend to the protection of guardians
and relations, and of the laws, and of the equity of the magistrates, and of your
administration of justice.
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