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Publius Sestius, O judges, was born (as most of you know) of a wise and
conscientious and strict father, who, after he had been appointed as the
first tribune of the people among a number of most noble men and in a
prosperous time of the republic, was not so eager to obtain the other
honours of the state as to seem worthy of them. By the advice of that
father, he married the daughter of a most honourable and thoroughly tried
man Caius Albinus by whom he had this boy whom you see here, and a daughter
who is now married. My client was so highly esteemed by these two men of the
highest class of old-fashioned virtue, that he was beyond all things beloved
by and agreeable to both of them. The death of his daughter took away from
Albinus the name of his father-in-law, but it did not take away the
affection and good-will engendered by that connection. And to this very day
he is very fond of him, as you may judge by his constant attendance here,
and by his anxiety for him, and by his frequent solicitations
to you on his behalf.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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