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You now, then have an answer to the question which you put to
me—who were the best men? They are not a race, as you termed them,
an expression which I recognised at once, for it was one invented by that
man by whom above all others, Publius Sestius sees himself
opposed,—by that man who has wished the whole of this race of
Romans destroyed and slaughtered,—who has constantly reproached
and constantly attacked Caius Caesar, a very mild-tempered man and very
averse to bloodshed, asserting that he, as long as that race lived, would
never be free from anxiety. He gained nothing by his attacks on the whole
body, but he never ceased to urge the point against me. He attacked me first
of all by the instrumentality of the informer Vettius, to whom he put
questions in the assembly, concerning me, and concerning the most
illustrious men in the state. But while doing this, he joined those citizens
in the same danger with me, bringing forward the same accusations against
them, so as to deserve great gratitude from me for connecting me with the
most honourable and bravest of men.
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