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You have said that an injury was done by the family of my client to Cnaeus Decius, a
Samnite; him I mean who was proscribed, in his calamity. He was never treated by any one more
liberally than by Cluentius. It was the riches of Cluentius that relieved him in his
distresses; and he himself, and all his friends and relations, know it well. You have said
“that his stewards offered violence to and assaulted the shepherds of Ancarius and
Pacenus.” When some dispute (as is often the case) had arisen in the hills between
the shepherds, the stewards of Habitus defended the property and private possessions of their
master. The parties expostulated with one another, the cause was proved to the satisfaction of
the others, and the matter was settled without any trial or any recourse to law.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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