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And then you object to me a tear which I shed at the trial of Cispius. For
this is what you said “I saw your tear.” See now how I
repent of having given you cause to say so. You might have seen not only a
tear but many tears, and weeping and sobbing. Was I to abstain from showing
my grief at the danger of a man who was so far moved by the tears of my
family in my absence that he laid aside the enmity which he had conceived
against me, and was not only no opposer of my safety, (as my
enemies had expected that he would have been,) but was even a great defender
of it?
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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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