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is afraid.—He who has received on his front all these scars, marks of his valour,
in the cause of the republic, fears to receive any wound on his reputation. He, whom no attack
of an enemy could ever move from his post, now is frightened at this onset of his
fellow-citizens, to which he must necessarily yield.
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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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