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And this, O judges, you may ascertain from the number of settlers, most
honourable men, here present; who are here now, and are anxious and above all things desirous
that the man, the patron, the defender, the guardian of that colony, (if they have not been
able to see him in the safe enjoyment of every sort of good fortune and every honour,) may at
all events, in the present misfortune by which he is attacked, be defended and preserved by
your means. The natives of Pompeii are here also with equal eagerness, who are accused as well
as he is by the prosecutors; men whose differences with the settlers about walks and about
votes have not gone to such lengths as to make them differ also about their common safety.
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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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