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Oh,
but Asicius was acquitted by the prevarication of the judges. It is very
easy to reply to such an assertion as that especially for me, by whom that
action is defended. But Caelius thinks that the cause of Asicius is a just
one; at all events, whatever may be its merits, he thinks it is quite
unconnected with his own. And not only Caelius but even other most
accomplished and learned young men, devoted to the most instructive studies
and to the most virtuous pursuits, Titus and Caius Coponius, who grieved
above all other men for the death of Dio, being bound to him as they were by
a common attachment to the pursuit of learning and science and being also
connected with him by ties of hospitality, think so too. He was living in
the house of Lucius Lucceius, as you have heard; they had become mutually
acquainted at Alexandria.
What Caius Coponius, and what his brother, a man of the very highest
respectability, think of Marcus Caelius, you shall hear from themselves if
they are produced as witnesses.
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