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They think that you are going to deliver a decision, not
about the fortunes of one of their citizens, but about the condition, and the dignity, and all
the advantages of the whole municipality. For the industry of that man in the common service
of the municipality is extreme, O judges; his kindness to each individual citizen, and his
justice and good faith towards all men, are of the highest order. Besides, he so preserves his
high rank among his countrymen, and the position which he has inherited from his ancestors,
that he equals the gravity, and wisdom, and popularity, and character for liberality of his
ancestors. Therefore they give their public testimony in his favour, in words which signify
not only their opinion of, and their esteem for him, but also their own anxiety of mind and
grief. And while their panegyric is being read, I beg of you, who have brought it hither, to
rise up. [ The panegyric on Cluentius, in pursuance of the resolution of the senators of
Larinum, is read.]
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