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Everything which I am saying about Plancius, I say having experienced the
truth of it in my own case. For we of Arpinum are near neighbours of the people of Atina. It is a neighbourhood to be
praised, and even to be loved, retaining the old-fashioned habits of
kindness for one another: one not tainted with ill-nature, nor accustomed to
falsehood, not insincere, nor treacherous, nor learned in the suburban, or
shall I say, the city artifices of dissimulation. There was not one citizen
of Arpinum who was not anxious for Plancius, not one citizen of Sora, or of Casinum, or of Aquinum. The whole of that most
celebrated district, the territory of Venafrum, and Allifae, in short, the whole of that rugged mountainous
faithful simple district, a district cherishing its own native citizens,
thought that it was honoured itself in his honour, that its own consequence
was increased by his dignity. And from those same municipalities Roman
knights are now present here, having been sent by the public authority,
commissioned to bear evidence in his favour; nor is their anxiety in his
behalf now inferior to the zeal which they displayed then. For, in truth, it
is a more terrible thing to be stripped of one's goods than not to attain a
dignity.
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