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O Quintus Catulus! (Shall I appeal rather to the father, or to the son? The
memory of the son is fresher, and more closely connected with my exploits.)
How greatly were you mistaken when you thought that I should find the
greatest possible reward—a reward, too, becoming every day greater
in this republic when you said that it was impossible for there to be at the
same time in this city two consuls hostile to the republic. Two have been
found who gave over the senate bound hand and foot to a frantic tribune;
who, by edicts and positive commands, prohibited the conscript fathers from
entreating the people and coming to it as suppliants on my behalf; who
looked on while my house was being sacked and plundered; who ordered the
damaged relics of my property to be carried off to their own houses.
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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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