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FANNIUS.
But we prefer to inquire of you. I have, it is true, often questioned those men too, and indeed have not been an unwilling listener, but the thread of your discourse is of a somewhat different texture.SCAEVOLA.
You would say so with greater confidence, Fannius, if you had been present recently in Scipio’s country home during the discussion on the Republic. What an advocate of justice Laelius was then against the elaborate speech of Philus!FANNIUS.
Ah! but it was an easy thing for the most just of men to defend justice.SCAEVOLA.
Well, then, would not the defence of friendship be easy for that man who has preserved it with the utmost fidelity, constancy, and sense of justice, and thereby gained the greatest renown?De Amicitia. M. Tullius Cicero. William Armistead Falconer (Translator). Cambridge. 1923.
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