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I do not think that anything has been omitted by me; but some topics have
been reserved for the end of my speech, and they are of such a nature that
they ought to reconcile you cordially to Deiotarus—for I am not
now afraid of your being angry with him; I am apprehensive rather of your
suspecting that he harbours some resentment against you. And that suspicion,
believe me, O Caesar, is as remote as possible from the truth. For he
recollects only what he still has left owing to you, and not what he has
lost by your means; nor does he consider that he has been deprived of
anything by you, but being aware that it was necessary for you to give many
rewards to many people, he did not think it hard that you should take
something from him who had been on the other side.
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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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