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This was the
common conversation of every one: “He is, however, a great and
firm support to the republic; we have some one to oppose to that pollution,
to that mud; I declare solemnly by his mere look he will check the
licentiousness and levity of his colleague; the senate will have some one
this year whom it can follow; good men will not be in want of an adviser and
a leader this year.” And men congratulated me most especially,
because I was likely to have not only a friend and connection, but also a
fearless and dignified consul as an ally against a frantic and audacious
tribune of the people.
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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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