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These three men he said he was going to avail himself of as his advisers in
forming all his plans, and as his assistants in all his actions: of whom he
said that one had the most numerous army in Italy; and that the other two, who were private men at that
time, could easily get an army a-piece if they chose, and that
they would do so. And while he menaced me, he threatened me, not with a
judicial decision of the people, nor with any legal or legitimate sort of
contest, nor with any discussion or regular trial of our dispute, but with
violence, and arms, and armies, and generals, and camps.
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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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