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In the next place, your
fellow-citizens are indeed most admirable men, but still they are very few
in number if they are compared with the people of Atina. The prefecture to which Plancius
belongs is so full of the bravest men, that no city in all Italy can be pronounced more populous. And
that multitude you now behold, O judges, in mourning attire and in distress
addressing its supplications to you. All these Roman knights whom you see
here, all these aerarian tribunes, (for we have sent the common people away
from this court, though they were all present at the comitia,)—how much strength, how much dignity did
they not add to my client's demand of the aedileship? They did not give him
only the aid of the Terentian tribe, of which I will speak hereafter, but
they added dignity to him, they kept their eyes fixed upon him, they
attended him with a solid, and vigorous, and unceasing escort; and even now
my own municipal town is greatly interested in his cause, from the sort of
connection which the fact of their being neighbours to him engenders.
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