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Why need I mention what enormous
wickednesses they are which he has been guilty of towards himself, and
towards his own relations? Who ever showed less mercy to the camp of an
enemy than he has shown to every part of his own person? What ship in a
public river was ever so open to all men as his youth was? What spendthrifts
ever lived in so unrestrained a manner with prostitutes as he did with his
own sisters? In short what enormous Charybdis could the poets ever describe
or ever imagine, capable of swallowing down such whirlpools as the plunder
of the Byzantines and Brogitari which that fellow has sucked down? or what
Scylla with such conspicuous and hungry hounds as the Gellii, and Clodii,
and Titii with which you see that fellow devouring the rostrum itself?
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