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The character that you know, from daily
experience, O judges, belongs to a flatterer of women, all agent of widows, an over-litigious
defender, eager for strife, ignorant and stupid among men, but a shrewd and clever lawyer
among women; this was the character of Aebutius. For all this was Aebutius to Caesennia. In
case you should ask, is he any relation? no one could be more entirely unconnected with
her—Was he a friend, recommended to her by her father or her husband? Nothing of the
sort. Who then was he? He was such a man as I have just been depicting— a voluntary
friend of the woman, united with her, not by any relationship, but by a pretended
officiousness, and a deceitful eagerness in her behalf; by an occasional assistance,
seasonable rather than faithful.
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