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haec interposui, patres conscripti, non tam ut pro me
dixerim1—male enim mecum ageretur, si parum vobis essem
sine defensione purgatus—quam ut quosdam nimis ieiuno
animo et angusto monerem, id quod semper ipse fecissem,
uti excellentium civium virtutem imitatione dignam, non
invidia putarent. Magnus est in re publica campus, ut
sapienter dicere M. Crassus2 solebat, multis apertus cursus ad
laudem.
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