Equidem, ut de me ipso fatear, non eum diem laetiorem egi quo mihi latus clavus oblatus est, vel quo homo novus et in civitate minime favorabili natus quaesturam aut tribunatum aut praeturam accepi, quam eos quibus mihi pro mediocritate huius quantulaecumque in dicendo facultatis aut reum prospere defendere, aut apud centumviros causam aliquam feliciter orare, aut apud principem ipsos illos libertos et procuratores principum tueri et defendere datur.
Let me make this avowal about my own case. The day on which I was invested with the robe of a senator, or that on which I was elected quaestor, or tribune, or praetor, though a man of new birth and a native of a community which is not at all popular at Rome'such days have been in no greater degree red-letter days for me than those on which I enjoy the opportunity, to the modest extent of my poor ability as a speaker, of securing an acquittal in a criminal trial, or of pleading some case successfully before the centumviral court, or of undertaking the defence of some redoubtable freedman or imperial agent in the Emperors presence-chamber.
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