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By which conduct you have done an injury, not only to your son, but also to the
republic. For you had begotten children, not for yourself alone, but also for your
country; who might not only be a pleasure to you, but who might some day or other be
able to be of use to the republic. You ought to have trained and educated them
according to the customs of your ancestors, and the established system of the state;
not in your crimes, in your infamy. Were he the able, and modest, and upright son of
a lazy, and debauched, and worthless father then the republic would have had a
valuable present from you. Now you have given to the state another Verres instead of
yourself, if, indeed, he is not worse (If that be possible) in this
respect,—that you have turned out such as you are without being bred up in
the school of a dissolute man, but only under a thief, and a go-between. 1
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