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For as to the attack made upon him,
that as a young man he was not well thought of by his fellow-citizens of the
same municipal town, I say that the people of Puteoli never paid greater honours to
any one when he was among them than they did to Marcus Caelius while he was
absent; for though he was absent they elected him a member of their most
honourable body; and they conferred those distinctions on him without his
asking for them, which they have refused to numbers when they solicited
them; and they have, moreover, now sent their most chosen men, and men of
our order, and Roman knights, with a deputation to attend this trial, and to
bear most honourable and authoritative testimony in his favour.
I seem to myself now to have laid the foundations of my defence; and they are
the firmest possible, if they rest on the judgment of his own
relations and fellow-citizens. For his life could not be sufficiently
recommended to you to meet with your approbation, if it displeased not only
his parent, who is so excellent a man, but also so illustrious and dignified
a municipality.
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