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In truth, if before my return, good men in numbers, of
their own accord, offered their services to Cnaeus Plancius when he was a
candidate for the tribuneship, do not you suppose that, if my name, while I
was absent was a credit to him, my entreaties, when I was present, must have
been serviceable to him? Are the colonists of Minturnae held in everlasting honour
because they saved Caius Marius from the sword of civil war and from the
hands of wicked men, because they received him in their
houses, because they enabled him to recruit his strength when exhausted with
fighting and with tossing on the waves, because they furnished him with
means for his journey, and gave him a vessel and when he was leaving that
land which he had saved, followed him with tears and prayers, and every good
wish? And do you wonder that his good faith and merciful and courageous
disposition was a credit to Cnaeus Plancius, who, whether I was expelled by
violence, or yielded from a deliberate plan or conduct, received me,
assisted me, protected me, and preserved me for these citizens, and for the
senate and people of Rome, that
they might be able at a subsequent time to restore me?
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