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Were you ignorant of the usual
practice on such occasions? had you never seen a feast of the sort? had you
never, when a boy or young man, been among the cooks? had you not a short
time before satisfied your ancient voracity at that most magnificent banquet
of Faustus, a noble young man? And when did you ever see the master of a
feast and his friends in mourning, and in black robes, while sitting at a
feast? What insanity took possession of you, that you should think, that,
unless you did what it was impious to do, unless you insulted the temple of
Castor, and the name of a feast, and the eyes of a citizen, and ancient
custom, and the authority of the man who had invited you, you had not given
sufficient proof that you did not think that a properly decreed and formal
supplication?
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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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