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But, nevertheless, you compare yourself with Plancius, in the first place as
to your race and family, in which he is beaten by you. For why should not I
confess what cannot he denied? But he is not more inferior to you in this
respect than I was to my competitors, both on other occasions, and when I
was a candidate for the consulship. But beware lest these very particulars
for which you look down upon him may have told in his favour. For let us
make the comparison in this way—You are descended from a consular
family on both sides. Have you any doubt then that all those who favour the
nobility of birth, who think that the finest of all things, who are
influenced by the images and great names of your ancestors, all voted for
you as aedile. I myself have not a doubt of it. But if the number of those
who are thus devoted to high birth is not very large, is that our fault? In
truth, let us go back to the head and origin of each of your families.
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