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1 3 | work is off my hands, I may devote my whole soul to
2 5 | influential defendant. ~ He may rest secure, said Aper,
3 8 | of the one, although it may seem that they must thank
4 8 | instances close at hand, and we may know them, not by hearsay,
5 8 | them, not by hearsay, but may see them with our eyes.
6 9 | Although your ears, Maternus, may loathe what I am about to
7 9 | you are a poet or that you may make verses for him; for
8 14| too whose ears your words may reach. Hence the world,
9 17| imagine, Menenius Agrippa, who may seem ancient, whom you usually
10 18| Carbo, and others whom we may rightly call “ancients.”
11 19| in order that the orator may avoid offence to the fastidious
12 21| of the critic, whence you may infer that even Calvus understood
13 21| side of his antiqueness. We may, indeed, make allowance
14 22| gold and jewels, so that he may find a frequent pleasure
15 23| although ill-nature and envy may have stood in the way of
16 25| Caesar, Caelius, and Brutus may claim the right of being
17 26| whom Aper ventured to name, may, if compared with his successors,
18 27| with examples before us, we may the more easily perceive
19 27| these discussions that we may speak out our convictions
20 31| In truth, in very many, I may say in all cases, acquaintance
21 34| of words, and indeed, I may almost say, learnt how to
22 36| speeches of magistrates who, I may say, passed nights on the
23 37| of Letters. From these we may gather that Cneius Pompeius
24 39| the judges! How much force may we suppose has been taken
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