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For in
the first place, as I said, though similar officers in the other colonies are called
duumvirs, these men chose to call themselves praetors. But if their first year of office
inspired them with such desires as that, do not you suppose that in a few years they would be
likely to take a fancy to the name of consuls? In the next place, they were preceded by
lictors, not with staves, but with two faces, just as lictors go
before the praetors here. The greater victims were placed in the forum, which, after they had
been approved by the college of priests, were sacrificed at the voice of the crier, and the
music of a flute-player, by the praetors from their tribunal, as they are at Rome by us who are consuls. After that, the conscript fathers
were summoned. But after this, it was almost more than one could endure, to see the
countenance of Considius. The man whom we had seen at Rome shriveled and wasted away, in a contemptible and abject condition, when we
saw him at Capua with Campanian haughtiness and
royal pride, we seemed to be looking at the Magii, and Blossii and Jubelii.
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