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We read that Aemilius Papus was an
intimate friend of Gaius Luscinus (so we have received
it from our forefathers), that they served together
twice as consuls and were colleagues in the censor
ship.1 Again the tradition is that Manius Curius
and Tiberius Coruncanius were most closely associated with them and with each other. Well, then,
it is impossible for us even to suspect any one of
these men of importuning a friend for anything
contrary to good faith or to his solemn oath, or
inimical to the commonwealth. What is the need
of asserting in the case of men like these, that if
such a request had been made it would not have
been granted, seeing that they were the purest of
men, and moreover, regarded it equally impious
to grant and to make such a request? But Tiberius
Gracchus did find followers in Gaius Carbo and
Gaius Cato,2 and he found a follower also in his
own brother Gaius, who though not very ardent
then is now intensely so.
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