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For as for what he writes, that the
son of Metellus was a mere boy, he is greatly mistaken. For there is not the same
access to the son of every praetor. O Timarchides, the son of Metellus is in the
province, not a boy, but a virtuous and modest youth, worthy of his rank and name.
How that boy of yours had behaved in the province, I would not say if I thought it
the fault of the boy, and not the fault of his father. Did not you, though you knew
yourself and your own habits of life, O Verres, take with you your son, still clad
in the robes of a boy, into Sicily, so that
even if nature had separated the boy from his father's vices and from every
resemblance to his family, still habit and training might prevent his degenerating
from them?
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