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During this period, Publius Clodius, a man of noble birth, eloquent, and daring, who knew no control for his words or actions but his own will, who fearlessly executed what he wickedly conceived, who bore the infamy of an in- cestuous commerce with his own sister, and who had been publicly accused of having committed adultery amidst the most solemn religious rites of the Roman people ; this man, I say, being actuated by a most violent enmity to Marcus Cicero, (for how, indeed, could anything li...ke friendship sub- sist between characters so dissimilar ?) renounced his patri- cian rank, became a plebeian, was appointed a tribune, and passed a law in his tribunate, that any person who had put 2 i iS2 VELLEITJS PATEBCULUB. [Book II. a Roman citizen to death without a judicial sentence, should be sent into banishment 1 . It was Cicero alone, though he was not named in this law, that was meant to be affected by it. Thus a man, who had performed the highest services to the state, received, in return for having saved his country, the penalty of exile.
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