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But I come now to Lucius Cassius, my own intimate friend, and I have not as
yet made any complaint about that Juventius whom that young man,
accomplished in every virtue and in every branch of polite learning,
mentions in his speech, and says that he was the first man of the common
people who was ever made a curule aedile. And with reference to that case,
if, O Cassius, I were to reply to you that the Roman people knew nothing of
that fact and that there is no one who can tell us anything about him,
especially now that Longinus is dead, you would not wonder, I imagine, when
I myself, who am not at all inclined to neglect the study of antiquity,
confess that I first heard of this fact in this place, from your mouth. And
since your oration was very elegant and very ingenious; worthy both of the
learning and modesty of a Roman knight, and since you were listened to by
these men with such attention as did great honour both to your
abilities and to your character as a gentleman and a scholar, I will reply
now to what you said, of which the greater part concerned me myself, and in
which the very stings, if you did put out any in your reproof of me, were
still not disagreeable to me.
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