M. Tullius Cicero, De Amicitia, ed. William Armistead Falconer, 25

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FANNIUS.

Nos autem a te potius. quamquam etiam ab istis saepe quaesivi et audivi non invitus equidem, sed aliud quoddam filum orationis tuae.

SCAEVOLA.

Tum magis id diceres, Fanni, si nuper in hortis Scipionis, cum est de re publica disputatum, affuisses. qualis tum patronus iustitiae fuit contra accuratam orationem Phili!

FANNIUS.

Facile id quidem fuit iustitiam iustissimo viro defendere.

SCAEVOLA.

Quid? amicitiam nonne facile ei, qui ob eam summa fide, constantia iustitiaque servatam maximam gloriam ceperit?

De Amicitia. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. William Armistead Falconer. London. 1923.

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Laelius De Amicitia (Latin) (Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De senectute; De amicitia; De divinatione. Falconer, W. A., editor. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1923.)

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Laelius on Friendship Perseus (Cicero. De Senectute, De Amicitia, De Divinatione. Falconer, William Armistead, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1923 (printing).) — 25 focus

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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?

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