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Therefore, although the other
qualifications, O Laterensis, those which your ancestors bequeathed to you,
were more conspicuous in you than in him; yet, on the other hand, Plancius
had an advantage over you not only in the zeal of his municipality, but in
that of his whole neighbourhood. Unless, indeed, the neighbourhood of
Tusculum to Lavicum, or
Gabii, or Bovillae was any
use to you; municipal towns in which you can now hardly find a single
citizen to bear a part in the Latin holidays. I will add, if you like, that
which you consider is even an objection to him, that his father is a farmer
of the revenues. And who is there who does not know what a great assistance
that body of men is to any one in seeking for any honour? For the flower of
the Roman knights, the ornament of the state, the great bulwark of the
republic is all comprehended in that body.
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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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