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Need I say more? Even if he were
willing to do so himself, do you think that his brother Lucius would permit him?
It has been reported that lately at Tibur, when Marcus Antonius appeared to him to he wavering, he,
Lucius, threatened his brother with death. And do we suppose that the orders of
the senate, and the words of the ambassadors, will be listened to by this.
Asiatic gladiator? It will be impossible for him to be separated from a brother,
especially from one of so much authority. For he is another Africanus among
them. He is considered of more influence than Lucius Trebellius, of more than
Titus Plancus
*** a noble young man. As for Plancus, who, having
been condemned by the unanimous vote of every one, amid the overpowering
applause of you yourselves, somehow or other got mixed up in this crowd, and
returned with a countenance so sorrowful, that he appeared to have been dragged
back rather than to have returned, he despises him to such degree, as if he were
interdicted from fire and water. At times he says that that man who set the
senate-house on fire has no right to a place in the senate-house.
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