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By this time you know the insolence of the man. You know what a tribune-like
pride and arrogance he has. How great was the animosity which he displayed! O ye immortal
gods! how great was his pride! how great his ignorance of himself! how preposterous and
intolerable was his arrogance! when he was indignant even at this, (from which all those
proceedings of his took their rise,) that Oppianicus was not pardoned at his entreaty and
owing to his defence; just as if it ought not to have been proof enough that he was deserted
by every one, that he had recourse to such an advocate as him. For there was at Rome a great abundance of advocates, most eloquent and most
honourable men, of whom certainly any one would have defended a Roman knight, of noble birth
in his municipality, if he had thought that such a cause could be defended with honour.
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