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Lately, when Marcus Aurelius Scaurus made the demand,
because he said that he as quaestor had been prevented by force at Ephesus from taking his servant out of the temple of
Diana, who had taken refuge in that asylum, Pericles, an Ephesian, a most noble man,
was summoned to Rome, because he was
accused of having been the author of that wrong. If you had stated to the senate
that you, a lieutenant, had been so treated at Lampsacus, that your companions were wounded, your lictor slain, you
yourself surrounded and nearly burnt, and that the ringleaders and principal actors
and chiefs in that transaction were Themistagoras and Thessalus, who, you write,
were so, who would not have been moved? Who would not have thought that he was
taking care of himself in chastising the injury which had been done to you? Who
would not have thought that not only your cause but that the common safety was at
stake in that matter? In truth the name of lieutenant 1 ought to be
such as to pass in safety not only among the laws of allies, but even amid the arms
of enemies.
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