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But just remark what the difference is between that most iniquitous
misfortune inflicted on your father and between my fortune and condition
which I am now discussing Lucius Philippus the censor, in reading the roll
of the senate, passed over his own uncle, your father, a most excellent
citizen; the son of a most illustrious man, himself a man of such severity
of character that if he were alive you would not have been suffered to live.
For he had no reason to allege why those acts should not be ratified which
had been done in that republic in which, at that very time, he had been
willing to take upon himself the office of censor. But as for me, Lucius
Cotta, a man of censorian rank, said in the senate, on his
oath, that if he had been censor at the time that I left the city, he should
have retained me on the list as a senator in my proper place.
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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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