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Who appointed any judge in my place? who of my
friends made a will at the time that I was absent, and did not give me the
same that he would have given me if I had been in the city? who was there, I
will not say only among the citizens, but even among the allies, who
hesitated to receive and assist me in defiance of your law? Lastly, the
whole senate, long before the law was passed respecting me,
“Voted, that thanks should be given to all those cities by which
Marcus Tullius...” Was that all? No—it went,
“a citizen who had done the greatest services to the republic, had
been received:” and do you, one single pernicious citizen, deny
that that citizen has been legally restored, whom the whole senate, even
while he was absent, considered not only a citizen, but has at all times
considered a most illustrious one?
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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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