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But since we have begun to institute a comparison between our fortunes we
will say no more of the return of Gabinius, whom, though he has cut the
ground from under his own feet, I still wish to see to admire the impudence
of the man. Let us, if you please, compare your return with mine. Mine was
such that the whole way from Brundusium to Rome I was beholding one unbroken line of the inhabitants
of all Italy. For there was no
district nor municipal town, nor prefecture, nor colony, from which a
deputation was not sent by the public authority to congratulate me. Why
should I speak of my arrival in the different towns? why of the crowds of
men who thronged out to meet me? why of the way in which the fathers of
families with their wives and children gathered together to greet me? why of
those days which were celebrated by every one on my arrival and return, as
if they had been solemn festival days of the immortal gods?
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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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