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There is exhibited in the
market-place of Laodicea a spectacle
bitter, and miserable, and grievous to the whole province of Asia—an aged parent led forth to
punishment, and on the other side a son; the one because he had defended the
chastity of his children, the other because he had defended the life of his father
and the fair fame of his sister. Each was weeping,—the father, not for his
own execution, but for that of his son; the son for that of his father. How many
tears do you think that Nero himself sheds? How great do you think was the weeping
of all Asia? How great the groans and lamentations of the citizens of Lampsacus, that innocent men, nobles, allies and
friends of the Roman people, should be put to death by public execution, on account
of the unprecedented wickedness and impious desires of one most profligate man?
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