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You have blamed him for dwelling in a house apart from his father, a thing
which is not at all to be blamed in a man of his age. For as, labouring in
the cause of the republic, he had achieved a victory which was, indeed,
annoying to me, but glorious to himself; and as he was now of sufficiently
mature age to stand for a magistracy, not only with the permission, but in
consequence of even the advice of his father, he left his house, and as his
father's house was a long way from the forum, he hired a house on the
Palatine Hill, at no very high
rent, in order the more easily to be able to visit us at our houses, and to
receive visits from his friends.
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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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