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A great price has been paid for
my error, O priests, so that I am not only grieved for my folly, but ashamed
of it too; since, though it was not some sudden and accidental occasion, but
many labors of long standing, encountered and undertaken long before, which
had united me with a most gallant and most illustrious man, I still suffered
myself to be led away to abandon such a friendship, and did not perceive who
they were whom it became me either to oppose as open enemies, or to distrust
as treacherous friends. Let them now at length cease to try and excite me
with the same language as before: “What is that man about? Does
not he know how great his influence is, what great achievements be has
performed with what great honour he has been restored? Why does he do honour
to the man by whom he was deserted?”
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