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departure of mine from the city is attacked, which accusation I cannot reply
to without the greatest credit to myself. For what, O priests, ought I to
say? That I lied from a consciousness of guilt? But that which was imputed
to me as a crime, not only was not a crime, but was the most glorious action
ever performed since the birth of man. That I feared the sentence of the
people? But not only was there no trial at any time before the people, but
if there had been, I should have departed with redoubled glory. That the
protection of the good was wanting to me? It is false. That I
was afraid of death? That is an assertion disgraceful to those who make it.
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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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