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Nor am I now finding fault with your prudence in not giving him those tribes
to which he was best known, but I am proving that the intention of the
senate was disregarded by you. In truth which of all these men would listen
to you? Or what could you say? Could you say that Plancius was guilty of the
depository of the money to be used in bribery? Men's ears would reject the
assertion. No one would endure it. All would turn away from it. That he was
a very acceptable man to the tribes? They would hear that willingly. We
ourselves should not be afraid to allow that. For do not think, O
Laterensis, that the effect of those laws which the senate has thought fit
to establish concerning bribery has been to put an end to the recommendation
of candidates to attentions being paid to electors, or to personal
influence. There have always been virtuous men who have been anxious to have
influence among the men of their own tribe.
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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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