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But why do I wonder if any
wicked thing is said of me by wicked men, where Lucius Torquatus himself, after having in the
first place laid such a foundation of virtue as he did in his youth, after having proposed to
himself the hope of the most honourable dignity in the state, and, in the second place, being
the son of Lucius Torquatus, a most intrepid consul a most virtuous senator, and at all times
a most admirable citizen, is sometimes run away with by impetuosity of language? For when he
had spoken in a low voice of the wickedness of Publius Lentulus, and of the audacity of all
the conspirators, so that only you, who approve of those things, could hear what he said, he
spoke with a loud querulous voice of the execution of Publius Lentulus and of the prison;
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