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But now, when of all the people no one has accused me, when it is
impossible for me to have been condemned, seeing that I have never been
accused, since I was not even expelled in such a way that I could not have
got the better of my adversaries if I had contested the point with them by
force; and when, on the other hand, I have at all times been defrauded and
praised and honoured by the Roman people; what pretence has any one for
thinking himself better off than I am, at all events as far as the people
are concerned?
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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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