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I would not say these things, O Tubero, if you had any reason to repent of
your consistency, or Caesar of his kindness. I ask now whether you are
seeking to avenge your own injuries, or those of the republic? If those of
the republic, what reply can you make with respect to your perseverance in
the cause of that other party? If your own, take care that you are not
making a great mistake in thinking that Caesar will be angry with your
enemies, after he has pardoned his own. Do I, then, appear to you, O Caesar,
to be occupied in the use of Ligarius? Do I appear to be speaking of his
conduct? In whatever I have said, I have endeavoured to refer everything to
the leading idea of your humanity, or clemency, mercy, whichever may be its
most proper name.
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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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