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one who was quitting office envied his successor, and wished him to meet with as many
disasters as possible in order that his own memory might be the more conspicuous. A state of
things not only not foreign to our habits, but one that has become very usual, and exceedingly
frequent. Nor indeed would such an everyday occurrence have of itself had any influence at all
upon Appius Claudius, a man endowed with the greatest humanity and wisdom, if he had not
thought that Scaurus was going to be a competitor of Caius Claudius his brother.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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