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Therefore I do not venture to make the reply to your severe judgment which I
ought to make. For it was my duty to plead for some sort of exemption from
several rules for youth, to claim some indulgence. I do not
venture, I say, to do this. I will not have recourse to any door of escape
which my client's age might open to me; I will not mention the privileges
which are allowed to all other men; I only ask that if at this time there is
a general feeling of discontent at the debts, and wantonness, and licentious
conduct of the youth of the city,—and I see that such a feeling
does exist to a great extent—the offences of others, and the vices
of the youth of others and of the times, may not prejudice my client. And
while I ask this, I do at the same time offer no objection to being called
on to reply most carefully to all the charges which are directed against him
in consequence of any conduct of his own.
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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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