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Did you
so despise the order of senators, did you so reduce everything to the standard of
your own insults and caprices, had you so deliberated and fixed it in your own mind
as an invariable rule, to reject as judges every one who dwelt in Sicily, or who had been in Sicily while you were praetor, that it never
occurred to you that still you must come before judges of the same order? in whose
minds, even if there were no indignation from any personal injury done to
themselves, still there would be this thought, that they were affronted in the
affront offered to another, and that the dignity of their order was contemptuously
treated and trampled on, which, O judges, appears to me not to be endured with
patience, for insult has in it a sting which modest and virtuous men can with
difficulty put up with.
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