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And yet they say that this man complains
sometimes of his misery in being weighed down, not by his own offences and crimes,
but by those of his friends. You had the province for three years; your son-in-law
elect, a young man, was with you one year. Your companions, gallant men, who were
your lieutenants, left you the first year. One lieutenant, Publius Tadius, who
remained, was not much with you; but if he had been always with you, he would with
the greatest care have spared your reputation, and still more would he have spared
his own. What presence have you for accusing others? What reason have you for
thinking that you can, I will not say, shift the blame of your actions on another,
but that you can divide it with another?
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