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I pass over many
instances because I see before me these lights and ornaments of the republic
Publius Servilius and Marcus Lucullus; would that that great man, Lucius
Lucullus, were still alive! What enmities were ever more bitter in this city
that those which subsisted between the Luculli and the Servilii? But in
those most gallant men the welfare of the republic, and their own dignity,
not only put an end to that ill-feeling, but even changed it into friendship
and intimacy. What? did not Quintus Metellus Nepos while consul in the
temple of the all good and all powerful Jupiter, influenced by your authority and also by the
incredible dignity of eloquence of that same Publius Servilius, become
reconciled to me though I was far away, and do me the greatest possible
service? Is it possible for me to be an enemy to this man, by whose letters,
by whose glory, and by whose messengers my ears are every day saluted with
previously unknown names of tribes, and nations, and places?
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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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