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I am anxious, indeed, in this cause of
King Deiotarus, with whom the affairs of this republic have united me in
friendship, while our mutual regard for one another has connected us by ties
of hospitality, with whom long acquaintance has engendered intimacy, and his
great services to me and to my army have wrought in me the greatest
affection for him. But while I am anxious about him, I am anxious also about
many most distinguished men, who have been pardoned by you, and who ought to
be able to consider their pardon, whenever pronounced, as binding for ever;
and who ought not to feel that a doubt is thrown on the permanency of your
kindness to them, nor to have a perpetual anxiety implanted in their minds;
nor, in short, ought it to be allowed to happen that any one of those men
should begin again to feel apprehension, who has once been released by you
from fear.
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