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For why need
I mention those divine and immortal decrees of the municipal towns, and of
the colonies, and of all Italy, by
which, as by a flight of steps, I seem not only to have returned to my
country, but to have mounted up to heaven? And what a day was that when the
Roman people beheld you, O Publius Lentulus, passing a law respecting me,
and felt how great a man and how worthy a citizen you were. For it is well
known that the Campus Martius had
never on any comitia seen so vast a crowd, or
such a splendid assembly of men of every class, age, and order. I say
nothing of the unanimous judgment and unanimous agreement of the cities,
nations, provinces, kings,—of the whole world, in
short,—as to the services which I had done to the whole human
race. But what an arrival at and entry into the city was mine! Did my
country receive me as it ought to receive light and safety when brought back
and restored to it, or as a cruel tyrant, as you, you herd of Catiline, were
accustomed to call me?
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