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Did he send him off to those farms that
he might remain on the land and merely have life kept in him at this country seat? that
he might be deprived of all conveniences? What? if it is proved that he not only managed
the cultivation of the farms, but was accustomed himself to have certain of the farms
for his own, even during the lifetime of his father? Will his industrious and rural life
still be called removal and banishment? You see, O Erucius, how far removed your line of
argument is from the fact itself, and from truth. That which fathers usually do, you
find fault with as an unprecedented thing; that which is done out of kindness, that you
accuse as having been done from dislike; that which a father granted his son as an
honour, that you say he did with the object of punishing him.
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