What shall I say if even the pretext of that injury which was done to you by him no
 longer remains? What have you then to say why you should be preferred, I will not say to
 me, but to any one? except that which I hear you intend to say, that you were his
 quaestor: which indeed would be an important allegation if you were contending with me
 as to which of us ought to be the most friendly to him; but in a contention as to which
 is to take up a quarrel against him, it is ridiculous to suppose that an intimate
 connection with him can be a just reason for bringing him into danger. In truth, if you had received ever so many injuries from your praetor, still you would
 deserve greater credit by bearing them than by revenging them; but when nothing in his
 life was ever done more rightly than that which you call an injury, shall these judges
 determine that this cause, which they would not even tolerate in any one else, shall
 appear in your case to be a reasonable one to justify the violation of your ancient
 connection? When even if you had received the greatest injury from him, still, since you
 have been his quaestor, you cannot accuse him and remain blameless yourself. But if no
 injury has been done you at all, you cannot accuse him without wickedness; and as it is
 very uncertain whether any injury has been done you, do you think that there is any one
 of these men who would not prefer that you should depart without incurring blame rather
 than after having committed wickedness? And just think how great is the difference between my opinion and yours. You, though
 you are in every respect inferior to me, still think that you ought to be preferred to
 me for this one reason, because you were his quaestor. I think, that if you were my
 superior in every other qualification, still that for this one cause alone you ought to
 be rejected as the prosecutor. For this is the principle which has been handed down to
 us from our ancestors, that a praetor ought to be in the place of a parent to his
 quaestor; that no more reasonable nor more important cause of intimate friendship can be
 imagined than a connection arising from drawing the same lot, having the same province,
 and being associated in the discharge of the same public duty and office.