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and I did not so
much yield to those other storms which were impending, but rather exposed
myself alone to them to secure the safety of all the rest of the citizens.
Accordingly at that time, on my departure, all those wicked swords fell from
the hands of those most cruel men; when you, O senseless and insane
man,—while all good men shut themselves up and hid themselves out
of grief, and lamented for the temples, and bewailed the very houses of the
city,—you, I say, embraced that fatal monster, the progeny of
nefarious licentiousness, and civil bloodshed, and the foulness or every
sort of wickedness, and the impunity of every crime; and in the same temple,
at that very same time and in the very same place, you forbade the senate to
express its opinion not only on my destruction, but on that of their
country.
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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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