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“Well, I confess,” says he,
“that in the case of Gabinius I did behave wickedly.”
You see now that the punishment which was established by you with reference
to another has been turned against yourself. But, O man, O you who are the
very model of every possible crime and wickedness, do you deny with respect
to me that which you admit in the case of Gabinius,—a man the
immodesty of whose childhood, the lust of whose youth, the disgrace and
indigence of whose subsequent life, the open robberies of whose consulship,
we have seen,—a man to whom even calamity itself could not happen
undeservedly? Did do you? that that was a more solemn act which you
performed with one young man alone for your witness, than it would have been
if you had had the whole assembly in that character?
“Oh,” says he, “a dedication is an act which
carries the greatest possible quantity of sanctity with it.”
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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