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Numerous events in the latter's life often recur
to me, but the most memorable one of all occurred
at his home, as he was sitting, according to his
custom, on a semi-circular garden bench, when I
and only a few of his intimate friends were with
him, and he happened to fall upon a topic which,
just about that time, was in many people's mouths.
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You, Atticus, were much in the society of Publius
Sulpicius, and on that account are the more certain
to remember what great astonishment, or rather
complaining, there was among the people when
Sulpicius, while plebeian tribune, separated himself
in deadly hatred from the then consul, Quintus
Pompeius, with whom he had lived on the most
intimate and affectionate terms.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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