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And how ingeniously have all your charges
been collected! Blesamius, says he, (for it was in his name, a very
excellent man, and one who was a stranger to you, that he was calumniating
you, O Deiotarus,) used to write to the king, that you, O Caesar, were very
unpopular; that you were considered a tyrant; that men were exceedingly
offended at your statue having been placed among those of the kings; that
you were never well received on your appearance in public. Do not you
perceive, O Caesar, that these statements were collected by these fellows,
from the city conversation of spiteful men? Could Blesamius have written to
say that Caesar was a tyrant? Yes, for he had seen the heads of many
citizens exposed; he had seen many men by the orders of Caesar ill-treated,
scourged and executed; he had seen many houses pillaged and
destroyed; he had seen the forum filled with armed troops!—No;
those things which previously we always have felt after victories in civil
war, we have not seen now, when you have been our conqueror.
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