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Nor do [I say] that these judges ought
never to be influenced by the complaints of the Sardinians. I am not so inhuman, nor so
hostile to the Sardinians, especially when my brother has only lately left their island,
having been sent thither by Cnaeus Pompeius to superintend the corn-markets and supplies of
the island; in which office he, as became his integrity and humanity, consulted their
interests himself, and was in turn very popular and very much beloved among them.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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