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I have
no fear, O judges, of appearing to assume too much credit to myself, if I
speak of my own quaestorship. For although I got great credit in it, still I
consider that I have been employed since that in the highest offices of the
state, so that I have no need to seek for much glory from the credit I
gained in my quaestorship; but still I do not fear that any one will venture
to say that anybody's quaestorship in Sicily has been either more acceptable to the people, or
has gained a higher reputation for the quaestor. Indeed, I can say this with
truth, I, too, at that time thought that men at Rome were talking of nothing else except
my quaestorship. At a time of great dearness, I had sent an immense quantity
of corn to Rome. I had been
affable to the traders, just to the merchants, liberal to the citizens of
the municipal towns, moderate as regards the allies, and in every respect I
appeared to have been most diligent in the discharge of every part of my
duty. Some perfectly unheard-of honours were contrived for me by the
Sicilians.
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