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As he had at all times been a favourer of the side of the nobility, so, too, in this
last disturbance, when the dignity and safety of all the nobles was in danger, he,
beyond all others in that neighbourhood, defended that party and that cause with all his
might, and zeal, and influence. He thought it right, in truth, that he should fight in
defence of their honour, on account of whom he himself was reckoned most honourable
among his fellow-citizens. After the victory was declared, and we had given up arms,
when men were being proscribed, and when they who were supposed to be enemies were being
taken in every district, he was constantly at Rome, and in the Forum, and was daily in the sight of every one; so that
he seemed rather to exult in the victory of the nobility, than to be afraid lest any
disaster should result to him from it.
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