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Nor does he appear to me merely to offer himself
to condemnation, nor to be content with the common punishment of avarice, when he
has involved himself in so many atrocities; his savage and monstrous nature wishes
for some extraordinary punishment. It is not alone demanded that, by his
condemnation, their property may be restored to those from whom it has been taken
away; but the insults offered to the religion of the immortal gods must be expiated,
and the tortures of Roman citizens, and the blood of many innocent men, must be
atoned for by that man's punishment.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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