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the war under his father's command. He added that the fact that he served in a war left no room for speaking ill of him. Murena was also accused of being a dancer, which characterised him as a person of less dignity. Cicero dismissed the relevance of this. He also dismissed the suggestion that
Sulpicius’ patrician status was higher than that of Murena, a new man, and made favourable points in regard to Murena's. He also argued that Murena's electoral success was also due to the return of his soldiers for the election, as they remembered his generosity from when he was serving with them.
132:, who won the senior consulship. He thus confined himself to prosecuting Murena. In turn, Murena appointed a man to keep Cato under observation - the law stated that a defendant could do this to ensure the fairness of the prosecutor's evidence. However, Murena's agent was impressed by Cato's integrity, and told Cato that if, on a given day, he told him that he was not pursuing the case, the agent would take his word for it and go away. During the trial, Cicero, acting as Murena's advocate, took advantage of Cato's well-known
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his brother, Gaius Murena, in charge of the province as his deputy. Cicero said that his "conduct in his province procured him the affection of many influential men, and a great accession of reputation" and that "he contrived by his equity and diligence to enable many of our citizens to recover debts which they had entirely despaired of."”
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