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As all those municipal towns which are between Vibo and Brundusium were in my interest, O
judges, they, though many people threatened me, and though they were in
great alarm themselves, rendered my journey safe to me. I arrived at
Brundusium, or, I should
rather say, I arrived outside the walls. I avoided entering the city which
was of all others the most friendly to me and which would have allowed
itself to be destroyed before it would have permitted me to be torn from its
embrace. I went to the villa of Marcus Laenius Flaccus; and though he had
every sort of fear before his eyes,—though he was threatened with
confiscation of his property, and exile and death, yet he chose to encounter
all these things, if they were to happen rather than abandon the design of
protecting my life. I, placed by his hands and by those of his father, a
most sensible and virtuous man, and by those of his brother and both his
sons in a safe and trustworthy ship, and being escorted by their prayers and
vows for my return, departed thence to go to Dyrrachium, which was devoted to my interests.
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