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And in this way, which you were acquitting him of the
most important charges, you left behind only the little blame of his
friendship for another.
Therefore, you not only abstained from punishing him, but you released him
from all apprehension; you acknowledged him as your friend, you left him
king. And, indeed, his proceedings were not dictated by any hatred of you;
he fell by the general error of us all. That king, whom the senate had
repeatedly addressed by this name, using it in decrees most complimentary to
him, and who from his youth up had always considered that order most
important and most sacred, being a man living at a great distance, and a
foreigner by birth, was perplexed by the same affairs which embarrassed us
who were born and who at all times had lived in the middle of the republic.
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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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