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Wherefore, even if you could accuse him without violating
strict right, still, as he had been in the place of a parent to you, you could not do so
without violating every principle of piety. But as you have not received any injury, and
would yet be creating danger for your praetor, you must admit that you are endeavouring
to wage an unjust and impious war against him. In truth, your quaestorship is an
argument of so strong a nature, that you would have to take a great deal of pains to
find an excuse for accusing him to whom you had acted as quaestor, and can never be a
reason why you should claim on that account to have the office of prosecuting him
entrusted to you above all men. Nor indeed, did any one who had acted as quaestor to
another, ever contest the point of being allowed to accuse him without being rejected.
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