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But let my speech end with the same sentiment as it began. We all, O Caius
Caesar, render you the greatest thanks, and we feel even deeper gratitude
than we express; for all feel the same thing, as you might have perceived
from the entreaties and tears of all. But because it is not necessary for
all of them to stand up and say so, they wish it at all events that by me,
who am forced in some degree to rise and speak, should he expressed both all
that they feel, and all that is becoming, and all that I myself consider due
to Marcus Marcellus, who is thus by you restored to this order, and to the
Roman people, and to the republic. For I feel that all men are exulting, not
in the safety of one individual alone, but in the general safety of all.
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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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