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And the affair would have been brought to its completion that very
day, if that tribune 1 of the people on whom,
when I was consul and he quaestor, I had heaped the greatest possible kindnesses, though the
whole senatorial body, and Caius Oppius, his father-in-law, a most virtuous man, threw
themselves in tears at his feet, had not required a night to consider of it; and that
consideration was devoted, not to giving back the bribe which he had received, as some
fancied, but as was afterwards discovered, to getting a larger one. After that, no other
business was transacted in the senate, and as my recall was hindered by various maneuvers,
still, as their inclination was plainly shown, the cause of the senate was brought before you
in the course of the month of January. There was this difference between me and my enemies.
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1 His name was Serranus.
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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