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But as for you whom we behold
present among us, whose mind, and feelings, and countenance, we at this
moment see to be such, that you wish to preserve everything which the
fortune of war has left to the republic, oh with what praises must we extol
you? with what zeal must we follow you? with what affection must we devote
ourselves to you! The very walls, I declare, the very walls of this
senate-house appear to me eager to return you thanks; because, in a short
time, you will have restored their ancient authority to this venerable abode
of themselves and of their ancestors.
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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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