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For you ought no longer to lie under this mistake. Is any one of you a man
inclined to violence, or atrocity, or murder? Not one. And, believe me, it is for such a race
of men as that that the district of Campania and
that beautiful Capua is reserved. It is against
you, against your liberty, against Cnaeus Pompeius that an army is being raised. Capua is being got ready in opposition to this city; bands
of audacious men are being equipped against you; ten generals are being appointed to
counterbalance Cnaeus Pompeius. Let them meet me face to face, and since they have summoned
me to this assembly of yours, at your request let them here argue the case with me.
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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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