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He married a second
wife, while his father was still alive, the daughter of a most virtuous but
most unfortunate man, Caius1 Scipio. And with respect to this man, the piety of
Publius was shown in a most remarkable way, and one acceptable to all men,
for he immediately went to Massilia2 to see and comfort
his father-in-law, cast out as he was by the waves of the republic, lying in
a foreign land, a man who ought to have stood in the footsteps of his
ancestors. And he conducted his daughter to him, in order to induce him, by
that unexpected sight and embrace, to lay aside, if not all, at least some
part of his sorrow; and as long as he lived he supported with the most
unceasing attentions the sorrow of the father and the desolate condition of
his daughter.
I might here say a great deal about his liberality, his attention to his
domestic duties, his conduct as military tribune, and his great moderation
in his province in the discharge of the duty of that magistracy; but I keep
always in my view the dignity of the republic, which summons me to the
consideration of herself, and exhorts me to pass over these minor points.
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1 Caius Scipio, surnamed Asiaticus, was proscribed by Sulla, and compelled to retire to Marseilles for safety.
2 Now Marseilles.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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