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If you had discharged your household, a matter which
would have concerned no one but yourself, your friends would have thought
that you required to be put under restraint; could you have disbanded the
protection of the republic, the garrison of the province, without the orders
of the Roman senate or people, if you had been in your sound senses?
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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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