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Metellus believes that Cicero's standing, knowledge,and social image will lend respectability to the crime, making it seem reasonable to others. Cicero was an elderly and respected statesman in Rome (although Casca complained about his speaking in Greek). Cassius suggests that the conspirators ought to get Cicero on board, and Metullus agrees, saying that "his silver hairs will purchase us a good opinion and buy men's voices to commend our deeds. It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands, our youths and wildness shall no whit appear, but all be buried in his gravity." In other words, he would lend credibility to the conspiracy. Brutus, however, nixes the idea, saying that Cicero would "never follow anything that other men begin"

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