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And what men they were! Not only men of the greatest
virtue and good faith, of which sort of men there are plenty in the senate, but men, also, who
I knew from their memory, from their knowledge, from their habit and rapidity of writing,
could most easily follow everything that was said. I selected Caius Cosconius, who was praetor
at the time; Marcus Messala, who was at the time standing for the praetorship; Publius
Nigidius, and Appius Claudius. I believe that there is no one who thinks that these men were
deficient either in the good faith or in the ability requisite to enable them to give an
accurate report.
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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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