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I say nothing of the way in which he
exercised his jurisdiction in a free city contrary to the laws and to the
resolutions of the senate. I pass over his murders, I omit all mention of
his acts of lust; of which there is a most bitter token, for the lasting
recollection of his infamy, and almost bringing even our sovereignty into
just odium, in the fact that it is notorious that some virgins of the
noblest birth threw themselves into wells, and by a voluntary death escaped
from otherwise inevitable disgrace. Nor do I omit them now because they are
not most enormous atrocities, but because I am speaking without the support
of any witnesses.
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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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