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And, in making them
even in such cases, the rule of the golden mean is best. 1
To be sure, Lucius Philippus, the son of Quintus, a
man of great ability and unusual renown, used to
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make it his boast that without giving any entertainments he had risen to all the positions looked upon
as the highest within the gift of the state. Cotta
could say the same, and Curio. I, too, may make
this boast my own—to a certain extent;2 for in comparison with the eminence of the offices to which I
was unanimously elected at the earliest legal age— and this was not the good fortune of any one of
those just mentioned—the outlay in my aedileship
was very inconsiderable.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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