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And just think how great is the difference between my opinion and yours. You, though
you are in every respect inferior to me, still think that you ought to be preferred to
me for this one reason, because you were his quaestor. I think, that if you were my
superior in every other qualification, still that for this one cause alone you ought to
be rejected as the prosecutor. For this is the principle which has been handed down to
us from our ancestors, that a praetor ought to be in the place of a parent to his
quaestor; that no more reasonable nor more important cause of intimate friendship can be
imagined than a connection arising from drawing the same lot, having the same province,
and being associated in the discharge of the same public duty and office.
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