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If, when we were doing this at his
house, as and as I hope we did not do in vain, you had all on a sudden burst
in, and had begun to cry out “O Caius Caesar, beware how you
pardon, beware how you pity brothers entreating you for the safety of their
brother,” would you not have renounced all humanity by such
conduct? How much harder is this, for you to oppose in the forum what we
begged of him in his own house! and while numbers are in this distress, to
take away from them the refuge which they might find in his clemency!
I will speak plainly, O Caius Caesar, what I feel.
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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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