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You saw what
massacres that man then committed, what men he stoned, what numbers he made
to flee; how easily by means of his armed bands and his daily plots did he
compel Cnaeus Pompeius to absent himself from the forum and the
senate-house, and to confine himself to his own house, even after he had
been already deserted by the best part of his forces. And from this you may
judge how great that violence was at its first rise, and when first
collected together, when even after it was scattered and almost extinct it
alarmed Cnaeus Pompeius in this way.
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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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