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I return to my original subject,
that, when the proceedings were being carried on against me, while the city
was taken and oppressed, Gellius and Firmius and Titius, all Furies of the
same class, were the chiefs and leaders of those mercenary bands, while the
proposer of the law himself was in no respect free from being implicated in
their baseness, and audacity, and iniquity. But when the law was passed for
my restoration to my dignity, no one thought that either infirm health or
old age supplied him with any reasonable excuse for being absent, there was
no one who did not consider that by his vote he was recalling not only me
but also the republic at the same time to its ancient position.
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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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