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But that, forsooth, did seem like a fortune appointed for the republic by
fate itself, that that blind and senseless tribune of the people should find
two—must I call them consuls? must I honour by this name the
overthrowers of this empire, the betrayers of your dignity, the enemies of
all good men? men who thought that they had been adorned with
those fasces, and with all the other insignia
of supreme honour and command, for the purpose of destroying the senate, of
crushing the equestrian order, and extinguishing all the rights and
established principles of our ancestors. And, I beg you in the name of the
immortal gods, if you do not yet wish to recall their wickedness and the
wounds which they have burnt into the republic, still turn your recollection
to their countenances and their gait. Their actions will more easily present
themselves to your minds if you bring their faces before your eyes.
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