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Although those men who keep saying that Catiline is going to Marseilles do not complain of this so much as they fear it; for there is not
one of them so inclined to pity, as not to prefer that he should go to Manlius rather than to
Marseilles. But he, if he had never before planned
what he is now doing, yet would rather be slain while living as a bandit, than live as an
exile; but now, when nothing has happened to him contrary to his own wish and
design,—except, indeed, that he has left Rome while we are alive,—let us wish rather that he may go into exile
than complain of it.
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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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