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For some of them were in the habit of
indulging in threats not only against those of their enemies who were in
arms, but even against those who remained quiet; and they used to say that
the matter to he considered was not what each man had thought, but where he
had been. So that it appears to me that the immortal gods, even if they were
inflicting punishment on the Roman people for some offence, when they
stirred up so serious and melancholy a civil war, are at length appeased, or
at all events satiated and have now made all our hopes of safety depend on
the clemency and wisdom of the conqueror.
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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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