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All suspicion of aiming at
kingly power is very far removed from me. If you ask who they are who have endeavoured to
assume kingly power in Rome, without unfolding the records of the public annals, you may find
them among the images in your own house. I suppose it is my achievements which have unduly
elated me, and have inspired me with I know not how much pride. Concerning which deeds of
mine, illustrious and immortal as they are, O judges, I can say thus much—that I,
who have saved this city, and the lives of all the citizens, from the most
extreme dangers, shall have gained quite reward enough, if no danger arises to myself out of
the great service which I have done to all men.
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