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You are too impetuous and fierce by nature. You do not think it allowable for
a word to escape from any man's mouth which may not fall pleasantly and
complimentary on your ears. You came forward in a rage with everybody which
I perceived and comprehended the moment I saw you, before you began to
speak, while Gellius, the dry nurse of all seditious men, was giving his
evidence before you. For on a sudden you sprang forward like a serpent out
of his hole, with eyes starting out of your head and your neck inflated and
your throat swelling so that
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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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