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What are we to do? shall we suffer those men to perish who are even now
supporting themselves on the resources of their patrimony or on the
liberality of their friends? Or, suppose any man has been prevented by the
enemies means from enjoying his public rights is that man protected by the
law of the censors? but in the case of a man who is prevented by one who is
an enemy, though he may not be actually called one, is that a man whom we
ought not to assist? Retain then in the province a little longer that man
who makes covenants with the enemy respecting the allies and with the allies
respecting the citizens,—who thinks himself a more important man
than his colleague on this account that he has deceived you by his morose
appearance and by his countenance, while he himself has never once pretended
to be less worthless than he really is. But Piso boasts in another sort of
fashion that he in a very short time has brought it to pass that Gabinius is
not thought the most infamous of all men.
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