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But as
the annals of the Roman people and the records of antiquity relate, that
great man Caeso Quintius, and Marcus Furius Camillus, and Marcus Servilius
Ahala, though they had deserved exceedingly well of the republic, still had
to endure the violence and passion of an excited people; and after they had
been condemned by the comitia centuriata and
had gone into banishment, were again restored to their former dignity by the
same people in a more placable humour. But if, in the case of those men who
were thus condemned, their calamity not only did not diminish the glory of
their most illustrious names, but even added fresh lustre to it; (for,
although it is more desirable to finish the course of one's life without
pain and without injury, still it contributes more to the immortality of a
man's glory to have been universally regretted by his fellow-citizens: than
never to have been injured;) shall a similar misfortune have in my case the
force of a reproach or of an accusation, when I left the city without any
sentence of the people, and have been restored by most honourable
resolutions of every order of society?
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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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