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For, what reason is there why the intimate friendship of Caesar should not
avail to procure this my client the highest praise rather than the very
slightest injury? Caesar knew him when a young man; he, that most able man,
thought highly of him, and though he had a most excessive multitude of
friends, Balbus was accounted by him one of his most intimate friends of
all. In his praetorship and in his consulship he appointed him prefect of
the engineers; he thought highly of his prudence, he loved him for his
integrity, he was grateful to him for his constant assistance and attention.
He was at different times the partner of very many of his labours; he is
perhaps even now the partaker of some of his benefits. And if
they are to be an injury to my client in your judgment, I do not see what is
ever to be an advantage to any one before such judges.
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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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