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And it is not without reason that I say no more on this point, for I see
that some most eminent men, the chief men of the city, have given their
decision on different occasions, that you could legally proceed with matters
which came before the common people; who said too, with reference to my own
case, though they said that the republic was murdered and buried by your
motion, still that that burial, miserable and bitter as it was, was all
according to law: they said that in carrying such a motion as you had
carried concerning me a citizen, and one who had deserved well of the
republic, you had inflicted a deadly wound on the republic; but, inasmuch as
you had carried it with all due reverence for the auspices, they said that you had acted legally. Wherefore we,
I imagine, may be allowed to abstain from attacking those actions by which
they were induced to approve of the establishment of your tribuneship.
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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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