Atque eo die confecta res esset, nisi is tribunus plebis, quem ego maximis beneficiis quaestorem consul ornaveram, cum et cunctus ordo et multi eum summi viri orarent et Cn. Oppius socer, optimus vir, ad pedes eius flens iaceret, noctem sibi ad deliberandum postulasset:
And on that very day the business would have been executed, had not the tribune of the plebs, whom, as quaestor, I had in my consulship honoured with extraordinary kindness, demanded a single night for deliberation, though the whole senatorial body and many eminent men begged him to withdraw his veto, and though his father-in-law, the excellent Gnaeus Oppius, prostrated himself in tears at his feet;
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