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But now, O judges, the sight of you,
and the fact of such men as you being the judges, strengthens and refreshes
my mind, when I look upon and behold each individual of you; for in all this
number I see no one to whom my safety has not been dear, no one who has not
acted with the greatest kindness towards me, no one to whom I
am not under eternal obligations from the recollection of their services.
Therefore I do not fear that the care shown by Cnaeus Plancius for my safety
will be any injury to him with those men who themselves have wished above
all things to see me in safety; and, O judges, it has more frequently come
into my mind that it is a strange thing that Marcus Laterensis, a man who
has shown the greatest regard for my dignity and safety, should have picked
out this man of all the world to institute a prosecution against, than that
I have any ground to fear lest he should appear to you to have had good
reason for doing so.
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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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