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But however, with respect to all that part of your speech, my reply in
defence may be very brief. For, as far as the age of Marcus Caelius might
give room for any such suspicion, in the first place it was fortified
against it by his own modesty, and in the second place by his father's
attentive care of him and rigid discipline; for, as soon as he had given him
the robe of a man,—(I will say nothing here of myself; you
yourselves are competent judges of what credit is due to me,—I
only say that he was immediately brought by his father to me as a
pupil,)—after that time no one ever saw Marcus Caelius in that the
flower of his age, that he was not either with his father, or with me, or
else in that most virtuous house of Marcus Crassus, and being instructed in
the most honourable branches of learning.
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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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