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But when I have displayed the wickedness
of your counsels, the dishonesty of your law, and the treachery which is planned by those
popular tribunes of the people against the Roman people; then, I suppose, I shall have reason
to fear that I shall not be allowed to appear in the assembly, for the purpose of opposing
you; especially when I have determined and resolved so to conduct myself in my consulship,
(and the duties of the consulship cannot be discharged with dignity and freedom, in any other
manner,) as neither to desire any province, nor honour, nor dignity nor advantage nor
anything whatever which can have any hindrance thrown in its way by any tribune of the
people.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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