Sed huiusce generis humanitas etiam in M. Cicerone praecipua apparuit: A. namque Gabinium repetundarum reum summo studio defendit, qui eum in consulatu suo urbe expulerat, idemque P. Vatinium, dignitati suae semper infestum, duobus publicis iudiciis tutatus est, ut sine ullo crimine levitatis ita cum aliqua laude, quia speciosius aliquanto iniuriae beneficiis vincuntur quam mutui odii pertinacia pensantur.
Good nature of this sort also showed itself conspicuously in M. Cicero. For he vigorously defended A. Gabinius on a charge of extortion, who in his Consulship had driven him out of Rome. He also protected P. Vatinius in two public trials, who had always been inimical to his own public standing; this without incurring the charge of levity, rather with some credit, for injuries are more handsomely overcome by kindness than balanced in pertinacity of mutual hate.
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