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And when I had come thither, I
ascertained—as indeed I had heard before—that Greece was full of wicked and abandoned
men, whose impious weapons and destructive firebrands my consulship had
wrested from their hands. And before they could hear that I had arrived in
those districts, and although they were many days' journey from them, I
proceeded into Macedonia to
Plancius. But as soon as ever Plancius heard that I had
crossed the sea.—(listen, listen, I say, and take notice, O
Laterensis, that you may know how much I owe to Plancius, and that you may
confess at last that what I am doing I am doing out of proper gratitude and
piously; and that the trouble which he took for my safety, if it is not to
do him any good, ought at all events not to be any injury to
him,)—as soon, I say, as he heard that I had arrived at Dyrrachium, he immediately came to me
himself, without his lictors, without any of the insignia of his office, and
with his robe changed for one of morning.
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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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