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Did any one all that time hear, not only of any act of yours, or of any
report of yours to the senate of all these transactions, but of even any
word at all uttered by you on the subject or of any complaint of yours? Do
you think that you were consul at that time, you, during whose period of
authority the man who, by means of the authority of the senate, had saved
the republic, and who in Italy had
united all parties of all nations by the celebration of three triumphs, made
up his mind that he could not appear in public with safety? Were you and
your colleague consuls at that time when, if you ever ventured to say one
word on any subject or to submit any motion whatever to the senate, the
whole body raised an outcry against you, and declared that you should do
nothing whatever till you had first made a motion concerning
me and my affairs? and when you both, though in fact you were fettered by
your treaty with that man, still said that you were anxious to do so, but
that were hindered by the law?
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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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