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This conciliation of good-will was laughed
at, and so was this assumption of the character of a good man, as in the gilded statues which
he erected in front of the temple of Juturna, at the bottom of which he had the following
inscription engraved,—“that the kings had been restored by him to the
favour of the people.” All his frauds and dishonest tricks were brought under
discussion; his whole life, which has been spent in such a way as that, was laid open; his
domestic poverty, the profits which he made in the courts of law, were all brought to light:
an interpreter of peace and concord who regulated everything by the bribes which he received
was not approved of. Therefore, Stalenus was condemned at that time, while he urged the same
defence as Attius did.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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