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But I did not come, and I kept in my own house as long as that disturbance
lasted; while it was notorious that your slaves had come with you armed into
the Capitol, ready for plunder and for the massacre of all good men, with
all that band of wicked and profligate partisans of yours. And when this was
reported to me, I know that I remained at home, and would not give you and
your gladiators power of renewing the massacre. After news was brought to me
that the Roman people had assembled at the Capitol, because of their fear
for, and difficulty of procuring corn, and that the ministers of your crimes
had been frightened and had fled, some having dropped their swords, and some
having had them taken from them, I came forward not only without any armed
band, but with only a very few friends.
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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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