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And why need I tell you how that law was received? I hear from you
yourselves that no pretext was admitted in the case of any one whatever as
sufficiently reasonable to excuse him from being present; that at no
comitia that ever were held was there
either a more numerous or a more respectable number of men assembled; and
this I can certainly see for myself,—what the public records
prove,—that you were the movers of the vote, that you were the
distributors and keepers of the voting tablets,—and that you did
of your own accord for the sake of ensuring my safety, though no one
requested you to do so, what, when the honours of your own relations are at
stake, you avoid doing under the plea either of your age, or of your rank.
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