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I come now to that state to which I myself have shown great kindness and done many great
services, and which my brother has shown the greatest attachment to and fondness for. And if
that city had brought its complaints before you by the month of creditable and respectable
men, I should be a little more concerned about it; but now what am I to think? Am I to think
that the Trallians entrusted their cause to Maeandrius, a needy, sordid man, without honour,
without character, without income? Where were the Pythodori, the Aetideni, the Lepisos, and
the other men who are well known among us, and who are of high rank among their own people?
where is their splendid and high-spirited display of the respectability of their city? Would
they not have been ashamed, if they had been serious about this business, that Maeandrius
should be called, I will not say their deputy, but even a Trallian at all? Would they ever
have entrusted to this man as their deputy,—to this man as their public witness,
Lucius Flaccus the hereditary patron of their city, whose father and ancestors had been so
before him, to be ruined by the evidence of their city? This cannot be the fact, O judges; it
never can be.
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