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Question 49. Wherefore was it a custom among the
candidates for magistracy to present themselves in their
togas without tunics, as Cato tells us?
Solution. Was it not that they should not carry money
in their bosoms to buy votes with? Or is it that they preferred no man as fit for the magistracy for the sake of his
birth, riches, or honors, but for his wounds and scars; and
that these might be visible to them that came about them,
they came without tunics to the elections? Or, as by courteous behavior, supplication, and submission, so by humbling themselves in nakedness did they gain on the affections
of the common people?
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 2.
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