“But he had no residence at
 Rome.” What, not he who for so many years before the freedom of the city was given to him, had
 established the abode of all his property and fortunes at Rome? “But he did not return himself.”
 Indeed he did, and in that return which alone obtains with the college of praetors the authority
 of a public document. 
 For as the returns of Appius were said to have been kept carelessly, and as the trifling
 conduct of Gabinius, before he was convicted, and his misfortune after his condemnation, had
 taken away all credit from the public registers, Metellus, the most scrupulous and moderate of
 all men, was so careful, that he came to Lucius Lentulus, the praetor, and to the judges, and
 said that he was greatly vexed at an erasure which appeared in one name. In these documents,
 therefore, you will see no erasure affecting the name of Aulus Licinius. And as this is the case, what reason have you for doubting about his
 citizenship, especially as he was enrolled as a citizen of other cities also? In truth, as men
 in Greece were in the habit of giving rights of citizenship to many men of very ordinary
 qualifications, and endowed with no talents at all, or with very moderate ones, without any
 payment, it is likely, I suppose, that the Rhegians, and Locrians, and Neapolitans, and
 Tarentines should have been unwilling to give to this man, enjoying the highest possible
 reputation for genius, what they were in the habit of giving even to theatrical artists. What,
 when other men, who not only after the freedom of the city had been given, but even after the
 passing of the Papian law, crept somehow or other into the registers of those municipalities,
 shall he be rejected who does not avail himself of those other lists in which he is enrolled,
 because he always wished to be considered a Heraclean?