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Tubero's lot was drawn in pursuance of a
resolution of the senate when he himself was not present, when he was even
hindered by sickness from being present. He had made up his mind to excuse
himself. I know all this from the great intimacy which exists between Lucius
Tubero and myself: we were brought up together, in our campaigns we were
comrades, afterwards we became connected by marriage, and throughout the
whole of our lives, in short, we have been friends; it has been, moreover, a
great bond between us, that we have been devoted to the same
studies. I know, therefore, that Tubero wished to remain at home; but there
was a person who contrived matters in such a way, who put forth that most
holy name of the republic so artfully, that even had his sentiments been
different from what they were, he would not have been able to support the
weight of his language.
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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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