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I wish, O judges,
that all the gods may be propitious to me, as I do not receive by any means so much
pleasure from all these things, (though the honours conferred on me by the people
are most acceptable to me,) as I feel anxiety, and as I will take pains, that this
aedileship may not seem to have been given to some one of the candidates, because it
could not be helped, but to have been conferred on me because it was proper that it
should be, and to have been conferred by the deliberate judgment of the people.
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