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You, when you were appointed praetor, by whatever means it was brought
about,—for I leave out and pass over everything that was done at that
time,—but when you were appointed, as I have said, were you not roused by
the very voice of the crier, who made such frequent announcements that you had been
invested with that honour by the centimes of the seniors and juniors, to think that
some part of the republic had been entrusted to you? that for that one year you must
do without the house of a prostitute? When it fell to you by lot to preside in the
court of justice, did you never consider what an important affair, what a burden you
had imposed on you? Did it never once occur to you, if by any chance you were able
to awaken yourself, that that province, which it was difficult for a man to
administer properly even if endowed with the greatest wisdom and the greatest
integrity, had fallen to the lot of the greatest stupidity and worthlessness?
Therefore, you were not only unwilling to drive Chelidon from your house during your
praetorship, but you even transported your whole praetorship to Chelidon's house.
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