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But let him in truth enjoy this as some comfort, and let him think this very
eminent mark of disgrace all the less considerable because it has been
inflicted on himself alone, provided only that he is content to expect the
same end as that man by whose precedent he consoles himself. Especially as
Albucius was not liable to the reproach of either Piso's lust or Gabinius's
audacity and yet fell by this one blow, the infamy with which he was branded
by the senate.
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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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