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But immediately he went off from that point and said no more about chastity,
being afraid, I suppose, lest he should be giving us some opportunity for joking and laughing.
For it is quite notorious that she was abominably ugly and excessively old. And so, however
lustful that Sardinian may have been, what suspicions of licentiousness or love can there be
on the part of my client?
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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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