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While the senate was being hindered by every sort of delay, and mockery, and
false pretence, there came at last the day appointed for the discussion of
my case, the twenty-fifth of January. The chief proposer of the motion, a
man most friendly to me, Quintus Fabricius, occupied the temple some time
before daybreak. On that day Sestius was quite quiet, the very man who is
now on his trial for violence. He, the advocate and defender of my cause,
takes no step at all, but waits to see the maneuvers of my enemies. What
next? How do these men conduct themselves by whose contrivance Publius
Sestius is now put upon his trial? As they had occupied the forum, and the
place for the comitia, and the senate-house, at
an early period of the night, with a number of armed men and slaves, they
fall on Fabricius, lay violent hands on him, slay some men, and wound many.
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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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