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Who, whether he was a patrician, or a plebeian, (for he had not yet settled that for a
certainty,) thought that the contest would lie chiefly with him: and Appius thought it would
be so much the more severe a contest because he recollected that when standing for the
pontificate, for the priesthood of Mars, and for other offices, he had stood as a patrician.
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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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