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What
was it then which inspired Sextus Roscius with such madness as that? Oh, says he, he did
not please his father. He did not please his father? For what reason? for it must have
been both a just and an important and a notorious reason. For as this is incredible,
that death should be inflicted on a father by a son, without many and most weighty
reasons; so this, too, is not probable, that a son should be hated by his father,
without many and important and necessary causes.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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