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 be long. Old age is a twilight that cannot last must be measured

9. Proculus that two years period   for an old man whatever is meanwhile means but a mean while  quashed the penalty and shortened the five years to three. For    Proculus, a man of a disposition in all other respects easy-going and pleasure-loving, yet in passing sentence was, I think, a little too ready to punish, and too severe  Many who have seemed in other matters far from taking things seriously, yet have been harsh on the bench, wishing no doubt to hide their real lack of severity under a cloak of ruthlessness put on for the purpose.

10. The two years then at last for Volumnius     his children, grand children, son-in-law, and relations to be freed from infamy, for whom  you will leave father and brothers at home. Relieve by your compassion an age which you know so well in your home and in your father and cancel  that meanwhile        had paid all the money for his senatorship

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