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But in this case, O Laterensis, what tribes did you select? The Terentian
tribe, I suppose. That certainly was an equitable proceeding, and certainly
one that was expected, and it was quite worthy of your wisdom and firmness.
The tribe of which you keep crying out that Plancius had been the seller,
and corrupter, and briber; that tribe, especially since it consists, as it
does, of most virtuous and highly respectable men, you ought to have chosen.
Did you choose the Voltinian tribe? for you have taken it into your head to
connect some charge or other with that tribe. Why, then, did you not select
that tribe? What had Plancius to do with the Lemonian tribe? What had he to
do with the Ufentian? or with the Crustumine? for as for the Maecian tribe,
you selected that to be one, not to judge, but to be rejected.
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