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There were two twin brothers of the municipality of Aletrinum, by name Caius and Lucius Fabricius, men very like one another in appearance and
disposition, but very unlike the rest of their fellow-citizens; among whom what uniform
respectability of character, and what consistent and moderate habits of life prevail, there is
not one of you, I imagine, who is ignorant. Oppianicus was always exceedingly intimate with
these Fabricii. You are all pretty well aware what great power in causing friendship a
similarity of pursuits and disposition has. As these two men lived in such a way as to think
no gain discreditable; as every sort of fraud, and treachery, and cheating of young men was
practiced by them; as they were notorious for every sort of vice and dishonesty, Oppianicus,
as I have said, had cultivated their intimacy for many years.
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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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