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For what expression was
ever used by Plancius which was not dictated by grief rather than by insult?
And what did he ever complain of, except at times when he was protecting his
companions or himself from injury? When the senate was hindered from making
a reply to a representation of the Roman knights,—a thing which
was invariably given even to enemies,—that injury was a great
grief to all the farmers of the revenue and that indignation this man did
not care to conceal. Their common feelings may perhaps have been disguised
by others, but the sentiments which my client shared with the rest he
revealed more plainly than the rest both by his countenance and by his
language.
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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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