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Are we to believe that, when he was induced by the hope
of interest to lend his money, his object was to have as large an estate as
possible, but that after he had got back the money which he had lent, he
then wished to be thought to be in want? He is certainly aiming at quite a
new sort of glory. “And again,” says the prosecutor,
“he acted in a very arbitrary manner at Alexandria.” I
should rather say he was treated in a most arbitrary way, in a most insolent
manner; he himself had to endure imprisonment. He saw his intimate friends
thrown into prison. Death was constantly before his eyes. And
at last, naked and needy, he fled from the kingdom. “But his money
was employed in commerce in other quarters.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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