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And even in regard to this very motion, who was there of
us who had any fears of Sulla or Caecilius attempting to carry any point by violence? Did not
all the alarm that existed at that time, all the fear and expectation of sedition, arise from
the villainy of Autronius? It was his expressions and his threats which were bruited abroad;
it was the sight of him, the multitudes that thronged to him, the crowd that escorted him, and
the bands of his abandoned followers, that caused all the fear of sedition which agitated us.
Therefore, Publius Sulla, as this most odious man was then his comrade and partner, not only
in honour but also in misfortune, was compelled to lose his own good fortune, and to remain
under a cloud without any remedy or alleviation.
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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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