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Then Roscius said many other things with a view to encourage me, and in truth, if he
were to say nothing he would still move any one by the very silent affection and zeal
which he felt for his relation. In truth, as he is an artist of that sort that he alone
seems worthy of being looked at when he is on the stage, so he is also a man of such a
sort that he alone seems to deserve never to go thither. “But what,”
says he, “if you have such a cause as this, that you have only to make this
plain, that there is no one in two or three days at most can walk seven hundred miles?
Will you still fear that you will not be able to argue this point against
Hortensius?”
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