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But afterwards he in a most wicked manner contrived all sorts of plots
against me, for no provocation which I had given him, except inasmuch as I
was anxious to please all virtuous men. He was every day mentioning some
fault of mine to those men whom he could get to listen to him; he warned the
man who was of all others the most friendly to me, Cnaeus Pompeius, to
beware of entering my house, and to be on his guard against me; he united
himself with my chief enemy, in such a manner that he said, with respect to
that proscription of mine which Sextus Clodius, a fellow thoroughly worthy
of his associates, promoted, that he was the tablet on which
it was written, and that he himself was the writer. And he alone of our
whole order openly exulted at my departure and at your grief. And I, for my
part, O judges, though he was every day attacking me, never said one word
against him; nor did I think, while I was being attacked by every sort of
engine and weapon of violence, and an army, and a mob, that it was suited to
my dignity to complain of one archer more.
He says that my acts displease him. Who doubts that? when he despises that
law which expressly forbids any one to exhibit shows of gladiators within
two years of his having stood, or being about to stand, for any office.
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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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