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The city was offended with him on account of the affair of Castricius;
concerning the whole of which Hortensius has made a sufficient reply. Very much against its
will, it had paid Castricius some money which had long been due to him. Hence comes all its
hatred to Flaccus, and this is his whole offence. And when Laelius had arrived in that city
among a set of angry men, and had re-opened their indignation with respect to Castricius by
mentioning the subject, the chief men jumped up and left the place, and refused to be present
in that assembly, and would not assist in carrying the decree, or in framing the deposition.
And to such an extent was that assembly deprived of the presence of the nobles of the city,
that Maeandrius was the chief of the chief men present; and it was by his tongue, acting like
a sort of fan of sedition, that assembly of needy men was ventilated.
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