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And although I do not exactly
know what he means yet I am sure that, if he were a friend to Pompeius, he
would not praise him. For, if he were his greatest enemy, what could he do
more to diminish his credit? Let those, who were glad that he was an enemy
to Cnaeus Pompeius, and who, on that account winked at his numerous and
enormous crimes, and who sometimes even accompanied his unbridled and
furious acts of frenzy with their applause, observe how quickly he has
turned round. For now he is praising him; he is inveighing against those men
to whom he previously sold himself. What do you suppose he will do if a door
to reconciliation with him should become really open to him, when he is so
eager to spread a belief in such a reconciliation?
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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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