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All these things the witnesses have informed you of; the prisoners have confessed, you by
many judgments have already decided; first, because you have thanked me in unprecedented
language, and have passed a vote that the conspiracy of abandoned men has been laid open by
my virtue and diligence; secondly, because you have compelled Publius Lentulus to abdicate
the praetorship; again, because you have voted that he and the others about whom you have
decided should be given into custody; and above all because you have decreed a supplication
in my name, an honour which has never been paid to any one before acting in a civil capacity;
last of all because yesterday you gave most ample rewards to the ambassadors of the
Allobroges and to Titus Vulturcius; all which acts are such that they, who have been given
into custody by name, without any doubt seem already condemned by you.
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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