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Being influenced then by these facts, and knowing that men who were already associated in a
conspiracy were being brought down by Catiline into the Campus Martius, armed with swords, I
myself descended into the campus with a guard of brave men, and with that broad and shining
breastplate, not in order to protect me, (for I knew that Catiline would aim at my head and
neck, not at my chest or body,) but in order that all good men might observe it, and, when
they saw their consul in fear and in danger, might as they did, throng together for my
assistance and protection. Therefore, as, O Servius, men thought you very remiss in
prosecuting the contest, and saw Catiline inflamed with hope and desire, all who wished to
repel that pest from the republic immediately joined the party of Murena.
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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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