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And you say that at the preceding
comitia the tribe of the Anio was given up
by Plotius to Pedius, and the Terentian tribe by Plancius to you; but now,
that they are taken away from both Pedius and you, lest they should run the
contest too fine. What a probable story it is, that before the inclination
of the people was ascertained, those men, who you say had already joined
their forces, should have thrown away their own tribes in order to assist
you, and that the same men should afterwards have been close and stingy,
when they had tried and found out how strong they were. They were afraid, I
suppose, of a close contest. As if the matter could come to a close point,
or as if there could be any danger. But nevertheless, do you bring the same
charge against Aulus Plotius, a most accomplished man? or do
you admit that you have only attacked the man who never requested you to
spare him?1 For as for
your having complained that you had more witnesses concerning the case of
the Voltinian tribe, than you had received votes in that tribe, you show by
that, either that you are bringing forward those men as witnesses who passed
you over because they had taken a bribe, or else that you could not get
their votes though they were paid nothing for them.
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1 Orellius and all editors consider this passage corrupt, and correct it in different ways.
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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