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What more need I say? Could he not have obtained the
freedom of the city from Quintus Metellus Pius, his own most intimate friend, who gave it to
many men, either by his own request, or by the intervention of the Luculli? especially when
Metellus was so anxious to have his own deeds celebrated in writing, that he gave his
attention willingly to poets born even at Cordova, whose poetry had a very heavy and foreign
flavour.
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