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And I will allow that dark period of your early youth to remain in obscurity.
You may with impunity, as far as I am concerned, have broken through walls
in your youth, and plundered your neighbours, and beaten your mother. Your
infamous character has this advantage, that the baseness of your youth is
concealed by your obscurity and vileness.
You stood for the quaestorship with Publius Sestius; while he was talking of
nothing but the object which he had in view at the moment and you were
constantly saying that you were thinking of obtaining a second consulship. I
ask you this. Do you recollect when Publius Sestius was unanimously elected
quaestor, that you then were named as the last quaestor, against the will of
every one; not owing to the kindness which the people felt for you, but only
to that of the consul?
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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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