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 1 5 |    secure and intrenched, so to say, within a power and a position
 2 5 | encounters. Of its usefulness I say no more. It is a point which
 3 9 |       loathe what I am about to say, I ask what good it is if
 4 9 |         all the glory is, so to say, cut short in the bloom
 5 9 |       must, as poets themselves say, retire to woods and groves,
 6 10|  capital from Spain or Asia, to say nothing of our Gallic neighbours,
 7 10|         answer. Hence, you will say, came the decisive approval;
 8 11|        afraid of having ever to say a word in the senate except
 9 14|               14 Excited and, I say, full of enthusiasm, Maternus
10 17|      and whom they might, so to say, have linked and coupled
11 19|      fix as the boundary, so to say, of antiquity, the period
12 21|       the same sick-room, so to say, who are content with mere
13 21| specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent,
14 25|      part too of his argument I say nothing. I maintain, however,
15 26|  courage to mention, and, so to say, to bring into the field.
16 30|                            30 I say nothing about the learners’
17 30| progress, and the growth, so to say, of his eloquence. He tells
18 31|      truth, in very many, I may say in all cases, acquaintance
19 32|      eloquence, banished, so to say, from her proper realm,
20 32|      all this, will, I am sure, say that, in praising an acquaintance
21 33| beginning, and indicated, so to say, its traces and outlines.
22 33|        assented, Messala, so to say, began afresh. As I have,
23 34|        and indeed, I may almost say, learnt how to fight in
24 34|      conflict, where no one can say anything foolish or self-contradictory
25 36|       of magistrates who, I may say, passed nights on the Rostra;
26 37|    oftener she has stood, so to say, in the battle-field, the
27 38|         and put a bridle, so to say, on eloquence, intending,
28 39|      Perhaps what I am going to say will be thought trifling
29 39|      and ridiculous; but I will say it even to be laughed at.
30 39|    which we squeeze, and, so to say, box ourselves up, when