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What? How repeatedly had he a
similar chance in the comitia! when he had
broken into the voting booth, and contrived to have swords drawn and stones
thrown, and then on a sudden, terrified at the look of Milo, fled towards
the Tiber, and you and all virtuous men prayed to heaven that Milo might
take it into his head to give fall scope to his valour.
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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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