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What was his object in leaving this city? in depriving himself of the glorious liberty
existing here? in undergoing all the danger of a voyage? just as if he might not have devoured
his property here at Rome. Now at last this jolly son writes to his mother, an
old woman not very likely to suspect him, and clears himself by a letter, in order to appear
not to have spent all that money with which he had crossed the sea, but to have given it to
Flaccus.
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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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