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But how does it happen that the
son of a woman of Aricia appears to
you to be ignoble, when you are accustomed to boast of a descent on the mother's
side which is precisely the same?1 Besides, what insanity
is it for that man to say any thing about the want of noble birth in men's
wives, when his father married Numitoria of Fregellae, the daughter of a traitor, and when he himself has
begotten children of the daughter of a freedman. However, those illustrious men
Lucius Philippus, who has a wife who came from Aricia, and Caius Marcellus, whose wife is the daughter of an
Arician, may look to this; and I am quite sure that they have no regrets on the
score of the dignity of those admirable women.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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