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In truth, I affirm this; that that which you
confess of your uncle, no man has ever yet confessed with respect to himself. No one, I say,
has been found so profligate, so abandoned, so entirely destitute, not only of all honesty,
but of every resemblance of and pretence to honesty, as to confess that he was in the Capitol
with Saturninus. But your uncle was. Let him have been; and let him have been, though not
compelled by the desperate condition of his own affairs, or by airy domestic distresses and
embarrassments. Suppose it was his intimacy with Lucius Saturninus that induced him to prefer
his friendship to his country,—was that a reason for Caius Rabirius also deserting
the republic? for his not appearing in that armed multitude of good men? for his refusing
obedience to the invitation and command of the consul?
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