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But if you were able to look into the
hearts of the Ligarii, so as to see the perfect unanimity which subsists
between them, you would think that all the brothers were on your side. Can
any one entertain a doubt that, if Quintus Ligarius had been able to be in
Italy, he would also have adopted the same opinions as his brothers adopted?
Who is there who is not acquainted with the harmony existing between them,
united and molten together, as I may say, by their nearness of age to one
another? Who does not feel that anything in the world was more likely than
that these brothers should adopt different opinions and embrace different
parties? By inclination, therefore, they are all with you. Owing to the
necessity of the times, one was separated from you; but he,
even if he had done what he did deliberately, would still have been only
like those men whom, nevertheless, you have shown yourself desirous to save.
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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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