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Cnaeus Pompeius, though many men have fried to oppose his zeal for and
attachment to my interests, has always had a regard for me; has always
considered me entirely worthy of his intimacy; has always wished me to be
not merely safe, but loaded with as much honour and distinction as possible.
It is the dishonesty of you and your friends—it is your
wickedness, your accusations against me, as if I were cherishing treacherous
designs and he were in danger,—accusations most wickedly invented,
and at the same time the accusations of those men who, abusing the liberty
which their friendship with him gave them, contrived a home for their most
infamous statements in his ears, at your instigation, and it is your desires
of provinces which caused me to be excluded from his house, and all the men
who were anxious for the preservation of his glory, and of the republic, to
be cut off from all conversation with and all access to him.
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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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