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But I am not bringing forward these
facts at this moment, O conscript fathers, as charges against this man, I am
merely arguing with respect to the province. Therefore I pass over all those
things which you have often heard of and which you are well aware of, even
when you do not hear of them. I say nothing of his audacious conduct in the
city, which he has fixed deep in the recollection of your eyes and minds; I
say nothing of his arrogance, of his insolence, of his cruelty. Let those
dark acts of lust of his lie hid, acts which he tried to conceal by his
stern countenance and supercilious look, not by modesty and temperance. I am
arguing about the province, the welfare of which is at stake in this matter.
Will you not send a successor to such a man as this? Will you allow him to
remain any longer? a man whose fortune, from the very moment
that he first reached the province, has so vied with his wickedness, that no
one could decide whether he was more undeserving or more unfortunate.
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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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