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Last of all he
approached the haughty countenance of his very enemy; weeping he took the hand of Sextus
Naevius, well practised in advertising the goods of his relations. He entreated him by
the ashes of his dead brother by the name of their relationship, by his own wife and
children to whom no one is a nearer relation than Publius Quinctius, at length to take
pity on him, to have some regard, if not for their relationship, at least for his age,
if not for a man, at least for humanity, to terminate the matter on any conditions as
long as they were only endurable, leaving his character unimpeached.
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