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What? Did you not understand that
you were being made sport of, when they read those words to you, “most illustrious
man, of most extraordinary wisdom, of singular ability.” I assure you they were
joking with you. But when they put a golden crown at the head of their letters, in reality
they did not entrust you with more gold than they would trust to a jackdaw; could you not even
perceive the neatness and facetiousness of the men? They, then,—those men of
Pergamus,—repudiated the advertisements which you produced. Publius Orbius, a man
both prudent and incorruptible, gave every decision that he did give against you.
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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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