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Ask Blesamius whether he ever wrote anything to the
king to the disparagement of your dignity. Hieras, indeed, undertakes the
whole cause of Deiotarus, and offers himself as the defendant against all
these charges in behalf of, and instead of, the king. He implores the aid of
your recollection in his favour; a quality in which you greatly excel: he
declares that all the time that you were in the tetrarchy of Deiotarus he
never left your side. He says that he met you on the frontier, and that he
attended you to the borders on the opposite side of the country; that when
you left the bath he was with you, and when you surveyed all those presents
after supper, and when you retired to rest in your bed-chamber. And he says,
too, that he attended you in the same unremitting manner all the next day.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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