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Have we seen any man, can we with truth speak of
any man, as having been equal in wisdom, in dignity, in consistency, in all other virtues, in
all the distinguishing qualities of honour, and genius, and splendid achievements, to Marcus
Aemilius Scaurus? And yet, though, when he was not on his oath, almost the whole world was
governed by his nod, yet, when he was on his oath, his evidence was not believed against Caius
Fimbria, nor against Caius Memmius. They, who were the judges, were unwilling that such a road
should be opened to enmities, as for every man to be able to destroy by his evidence who ever
he hated. Who is there who does not know how great was the modesty, how great the abilities,
how great the influence of Lucius Crassus? And yet he, whose mere conversation had the
authority of evidence, could not, by his actual evidence, establish the things which he had
stated against Marcus Marcellus with hostile feelings.
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