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To these acts of his, being not only aids to my safety, but even ornaments of my dignity,
you yourselves added the rest that was wanting. You decreed that no one should by any means
whatever hinder that matter from proceeding; that if any one did try to interpose any
obstacle, you would be very angry and indignant; that he would be acting in a manner contrary
to the interests of the republic, and the safety of good men, and the unanimous wish of the
citizens; and that such a man was instantly to be reported to you. And you passed a vote that
if they persisted in interposing obstacles, I was to return in spite of them. Why need I tell
how thanks were given to all those who had come up from the municipal towns; or that they were
entreated to be present with equal eagerness on that day when the whole affair was
consummated? Lastly, why need I tell what you did on that day which Publius Lentulus has made
as a birthday to me, and to my brother, and to our children, to be recollected not only by us,
who are now alive, but by all our race for ever? On which day, in the comitia centuriata, which our ancestors rightly called and considered the real
comitia, he summoned us back to our country, so that the same
centuries which had made me consul should declare their approval of my consulship.
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