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If fortune did not give to you to know the father
whose son you are, so that you could understand what was the affection of fathers
towards their children; still, at all events, nature has given you no small share of
human feeling. To this is added a zeal for learning, so that you are not unversed in
literature. Does that old man in Caecilius, (to quote a play,) appear to have less
affection for Eutychus, his son, who lives in the country, than for his other one
Chaerestratus? for that, I think, is his name; do you think that he keeps one with him
in the city do him honour, and sends the other into the country in order to punish him?
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