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And if he, both just now,
and whenever he has had any opportunity or possibility of speaking on the
subject, has thought it his duty to brand not only with his adverse opinion
but with the greatest severity of language, Gabinius and Piso, as the two
monsters who have been almost the destruction of the republic, both on other
accounts, and also most especially because of their extraordinary wickedness
and unseemly inhumanity towards me, with what feelings ought I myself to be
actuated towards those men,—I whose safety they devoted and ruined
for the gratification of their own evil passions?
But in declaring my sentiments at this time, I will not be guided by my
indignation, nor will I make my speech subservient to my enmity. The same
feelings which every individual among you ought to entertain towards those
men, shall influence me also. My own predominant and peculiar feeling of
private indignation, which, however, you have always considered as belonging
to yourselves in common with me, I will put aside while delivering my
opinion, and reserve for a more fitting opportunity of revenge.
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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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