Although, O Romans, your numerous assembly has always seemed to me the most agreeable body
that any one can address, and this place, which is most honourable to plead in, has also
seemed always the most distinguished place for delivering an oration in, still I have been
prevented from trying this road to glory, which has at all times been entirely open to every
virtuous man, not indeed by my own will, but by the system of life which I have adopted from
my earliest years. For as hitherto I have not dared, on account of my youth, to intrude upon
the authority of this place, and as I considered that no arguments ought to be brought to this
place except such as were the fruit of great ability, and worked up with the greatest
industry, I have thought it fit to devote all my time to the necessities of my friends.
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