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The senate was
with me, even changing its garments in token of the danger; a measure which
was adopted by public resolution for no one else except myself in the memory
of man. But recollect who were then our enemies with the name of consuls.
The only men since the city was built who ever prevented the senate from
complying with a resolution of the senate, and who by their edict took away,
not indeed grief, from the conscript fathers, but the power of deciding on
the reasons for their grief. The whole equestrian order was with me; whom,
indeed, that dancing consul of Catiline's used to frighten in the assemblies
of the people with menaces of proscription. All Italy was assembled, and terrified with fear of civil war
and devastation.
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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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