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nor should I have
been less grateful to him as far as my inclination went, if this trouble had
not befallen him. You ask of me, O Cassius, what I could do more for my own
brother, who is most dear to me,—what I could do more for my own
children, than whom nothing can be more delightful to me, than I am doing
for Plancius? And you do not see that the very affection which I feel for
them, stimulates and excites me to defend the safety of Plancius, too. For
they have nothing more at heart than the safety of the man by whom they know
that my safety was ensured; and I myself never look on them without
recollecting that it is by his means that I was preserved to them, and
remembering his great services done to me.
You relate that Opimius was condemned, though he himself had been the saviour
of the republic. You add to him Calidius, by whose law Quintus Metellus was
restored to the state; and you find fault with my prayers on behalf of
Cnaeus Plancius, because Opimius was not released on account of his
services, nor Calidius on account of those of Quintus Metellus.
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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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