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Many men have dismissed quaestors, lieutenants, prefects, and
tribunes, and ordered them to leave the province, because they thought that their
own reputation was being injured through their misconduct, or because they
considered that they were behaving ill in some particular. Would you never have
addressed Apronius, a man scarcely a free man, profligate, abandoned, infamous, who
could not preserve, I will not say an honest mind, but not even a pure soul, with
even one harsh word, and that too when smarting under disgrace and insult yourself?
And moreover, the respect due to a partnership would not have been so sacred in your
eyes as to make you indifferent to the danger you were in, if you had not seen the
matter was so well known and so notorious to every one.
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