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But I neither think that I was deserted at that time,
but rather surrendered; nor do I think it needful for me to explain what at
the time of that unhappiness to the republic was done against me nor how,
nor by whose instrumentality it was done. If it was beneficial to the
republic that that alone, as the victim offered for the general safety,
should quaff that most unworthy cup of calamity, it may be useful also for
me to conceal and be silent respecting the men by whose wickedness it was
brought about. But yet it is the part of an ungrateful man to be silent.
Therefore I will most willingly proclaim that Cnaeus Pompeius laboured with
all his zeal and influence as much as any one of you, and with all his
means, and labour, and by entreaty, and even at his own personal risk, to
promote my safety.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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