Faveas tu hosti, ille litteras ad te mittat de sua spe rerum secundarum, eas tu laetus proferas, recites, describendas etiam des improbis civibus, eorum augeas animos, bonorum spem virtutemque debilites; et te consularem aut senatorem, denique civem putes?
Are you, sir, to back the enemy? Is he to send you letters about his hopes of success? Are you to produce them with a smile on your face, read them aloud, even give them to wicked citizens to copy, hearten such, sap the hope and courage of decent men? And then are you to regard yourself as a consular or a senator, or even a citizen?
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