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For, as for Quinctius, indeed, what cause had he ever pleaded before, though he was now
nearly fifty years old? Who had ever seen him not only in the position of a counsel for the
defence, but even as a witness to character, or as employed in any 1 way in any
cause? who, because he had seized on the rostrum which had been for some time empty, and the
place which had been deserted by the voice of the tribunes ever since the arrival of Lucius
Sulla, and had recalled the multitude, which had now been for some time unused to assemblies,
to the likeness of the old custom, was on that account for a short time rather popular with a
certain set of men. But yet afterwards how hated he became by those very men by whose means he
had mounted into a higher position!—and very deservedly.
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