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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi012.perseus-eng3" subtype="translation"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" n="24" resp="perseus"><p> But we see that in the nature of things he must have
    adopted one of these three lines of conduct: he must either have been with Saturninus, or with
    the good men, or he must have been lying in bed—to lie hid was a state equal to the most
    infamous death; to be with Saturninus was the act of insanity and wickedness. Virtue, and
    honour, and shame, compelled him to range himself on the side of the consuls. Do you, therefore,
    accuse Caius Rabirius on this account, that he was with those men whom he would have been
    utterly mad to have opposed, utterly infamous if he had deserted them? <milestone n="9" unit="chapter"/>
   <milestone unit="para"/>But Caius Decianus, whom you often mention, was condemned, because, when he was accusing, with
    the earnest approval of all good men, a man notorious for every description of infamy, Publius
    Furius, he dared to complain in the assembly of the death of Saturninus. And Sextus Titius was
    condemned for having an image of Lucius Saturninus in his house. The Roman knights laid it down
    by that decision that that man was a worthless citizen, and one who ought not to be allowed to
    remain in the state, who either by keeping his image sought, to do credit to the death of a man
    who was seditious to such a degree as to become an enemy to the republic, or who sought by pity
    to excite the regrets of ignorant men, or who showed his own inclination to imitate such
    villainy. </p></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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