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Therefore, O conscript fathers, you see that the farmers of the revenue were
ground down and nearly ruined, not by any rashness with which they had
entered into their contracts, nor by any ignorance of the proper methods of
transacting business, but by the avarice, the pride, and the cruelty of
Gabinius. And to their assistance indeed, in the present difficulties of the
treasury, it is actually indispensable that you should come.
Although there are many of them whom you cannot now relieve, men who by the
means of that enemy of the senate of that most bitter foe of the equestrian
order and of all virtuous men, wretched that they are, have lost not only
their property but their honourable position; men whom neither parsimony nor
temperance nor virtue nor labour nor respectability of character, have been
able to protect against the audacity of that glutton and robber.
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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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