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I confess that I do, and I add, that I
come from that municipal town from which salvation to this city and empire has more than once
proceeded. But I should like exceedingly to know from you, how it is that those men who come
from the municipal towns appear to you to be foreigners. For no one ever made that objection
to that great man, Marcus Cato the elder, though he had many enemies, or to Titus Coruncanius,
or to Marcus Curius, or even to that great hero of our own times, Caius Marius, through many
men envied him. In truth, I am exceedingly delighted that I am a man of such a character that,
when you were anxious to find fault with me, you could still find nothing to reproach me with
which did not apply also to the greater part of the citizens.
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