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si per1 L. Metellum licitum
esset, iudices, matres illorum miserorum sororesque2 veniebant;
quarum una, cum ego ad Heracleam noctu accederem,
cum omnibus matronis eius civitatis et cum multis
facibus mihi obviam venit, et ita,—me suam salutem
appellans, te suum carnificem nominans, fili nomen implorans,
—mihi ad pedes misera iacuit quasi ego eius3 excitare
ab inferis filium possem. faciebant hoc itidem4 ceteris
in civitatibus grandes natu matres et item parvi liberi
miserorum; quorum utrumque5 aetas laborem et industriam
meam, fidem et misericordiam vestram requirebat6.
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