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Were you consul when my house on the
Palatine Hill was set on fire,
not by any accident but by men applying fire brands to it at your
inspiration? Was there ever before any conflagration of any great extent or
importance in the city without the consul coming to bring assistance? But
you at that very time were sitting in the house of your mother in law, close
to my house; you had opened her house to receive the plunder of mine; you
were sitting there not for the purpose of extinguishing, but as the
originator of the fire and you—I may almost say—were
yourself as consul supplying burning firebrands to the Furies of Clodius's
party.
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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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