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But in truth, let us allow that these
advantages are all equal,—let exertions displayed in the forum be allowed to be
equal to military achievements,—let the votes of the quiet citizens be granted to be
of equal weight with those of the I soldiers,—let it be of equal assistance to a man
to have I exhibited the most magnificent games, and never to have exhibited any at all; what
then? Do you think that in the praetorship itself there was no difference between your lot and
that of my client Murena?
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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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