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I objected to objectionable judges in such a
way that this is plain,—that since the republic has had that constitution
which we now enjoy, no tribunal has ever existed of similar renown and dignity. And
this credit that fellow says that he shares in common with me; since when he
rejected Publius Galba as judge, he retained Marcus Lucretius; and when, upon this,
his patron asked him why he had allowed his most intimate friends Sextus Paeduceus,
Quintus Considius, and Quintus Junius, to be objected to, he answered, because he
knew them to be too much attached to their own ideas and opinions in coming to a
decision.
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