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Why should I speak of myself; or of my brother?
The very fields—I might almost say, the very hills
themselves,—supported us in the pursuit of our honours. Do you
ever see any man of Tusculum
boast of that great man, Marcus Cato, the first man in every sort of virtue,
or of Tiberius Coruncanius, though a citizen of their own municipal town, or
of all the Fulvii? No one ever mentions them. But if ever you fall in with a
citizen of Arpinum, you are
forced, whether you will or no, perhaps, to hear something about us, but at
all events something about Caius Marius. In the first place, then, Plancius
had the ardent zeal of his fellow-citizens in his favour; you had no more
than was likely to exist among men who are by this time surfeited with
honours.
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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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