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For Pompeius would not have wished me to do anything contrary to my
inclination for his sake. Nor would I, to whom the liberty of all the
citizens has always been the dearest object, ever have abandoned my own. As
long as I was on terms of the greatest enmity to Gabinius, Pompeius was in
no respect the less my dearest friend. Nor after I had made to his authority
that concession to which it was entitled from me, did I feign anything I
could not behave with treachery so as to injure the very man whom I had just
been obliging. For by refusing to be reconciled to my enemy, I was doing no
harm to Pompeius; but if I had allowed him to reconcile us, and yet had
myself been reconciled to Gabinius with a treacherous intention I should
have behaved dishonestly,—principally, indeed, to myself, but in
the next degree to him also,.
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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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