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But when, by the singular and admirable virtue of Publius Lentulus the consul, you began on
the first of January to see light arising in the republic out of the clouds and darkness of
the preceding year,—when the great reputation of Quintus Metellus, that most noble
and excellent man, and the virtue and loyalty of the praetors, and of nearly all the tribunes
of the people, had likewise come to the aid of the republic,—when Cnaeus Pompeius,
the greatest man for virtue, and glory, and achievements that any nation or any age has ever
produced, the most illustrious man that memory can suggest thought that he could again come
with safety into the senate,—then your unanimity with respect to my safety was so
great that my body only was absent, my dignity had already returned to this country.
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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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