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But now what promotion of yours am I opposing? or what dignity of yours am I throwing
obstacles in the way of? what is there which you can at present seek from this proceeding?
Honour has been conferred on your father; the insignia of honour have descended to you. You,
adorned with his spoils, come to tear the body of him whom you have slain; I am defending and
protecting him who is lying prostrate and stripped of his arms. And on this you find fault
with me, and are angry because I defend him. But I not only am not angry with you, but I do
not even find fault with your proceeding. For I imagine that you have laid down a rule for
yourself as to what you thought that you ought to do, and that you have appointed a very
capable judge of your duty.
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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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