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Two conspiracies are spoken of by you, O Torquatus; one, which is said to have been formed
in the consulship of Lepidus and Volcatius, when your own father was consul elect; the other,
that which broke out in my consulship. In each of these you say that Sulla was implicated. You
know that I was not acquainted with the counsels of your father, a most brave man, and a most
excellent consul. You know, as there was the greatest intimacy between you and me, that I knew
nothing of what happened, or of what was said in those times; I imagine, because I had not yet
become a thoroughly public character, because I had not yet arrived at the goal of honour
which I proposed to myself; and because my ambition and my forensic labours separated me from
all political deliberations.
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