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I wish you to reply to me. Did any one of the
whole college venture to bring forward any law, except you alone? And how
did you become possessed of so much audacity, how did you dare to act with
so much violence, as alone—you, a man raised out of the mud,
beyond all comparison the lowest of all men in every respect—to
think that a proper subject for your contempt and scorn, and derision, which
all your nine colleagues thought deserving of their fear and awe? Have you
ever known of any one tribune of the people, since the foundation of the
city, having transacted business with the people when it was known that any
magistrate was observing the heavens?
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