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Therefore
be begs this of you, O Caius Aquillius, that he may be allowed to carry with him out of
this place the character and the probity which, now that his life is nearly come to an
end, he brought with him before your tribunal. That he, of whose virtue no one ever
doubted, may not in his sixtieth year be branded with disgrace, with stigma, and with
the most shameful ignominy; that Sextus Naevius may not array himself in all his
ornaments as spoils of victory; that it may not be owing to you that the character,
which has accompanied Publius Quinctius to his old age, does not attend him to the
tomb.
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