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And, therefore, if I
plead with more vehemence or more freedom than those who have spoken before
me, I beg of you to listen to my speech with much indulgence, and to make
all the allowance for it that you think is due to pious grief and just indignation. For no man's grief can be more intimately
connected with his duty than this present grief of mine, being caused as it
is by the peril of a man who has done me the greatest possible services. Nor
is any indignation more praiseworthy than that with which I am inflamed by
the wickedness of those men, who have thought it their business to declare
war against all the defenders of my safety.
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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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