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You were persuaded, and appointed as an ambassador with a free hand the man whom in the previous year, after his election to the generalship, you had rejected on his scrutiny,1 because you judged him disloyal to your democracy.
1 An examination of officers and magistrates between their election in spring and their assumption of office after midsummer.
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