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For behold, on the first of June, on which day they had given notice that we were
all to attend the senate, everything was changed. Nothing was done by the
senate, but many and important measures were transacted by the agency of the
people, though that people was both absent and disapproving. The consuls elect
said, that they did not dare to come into the senate. The liberators of their
country were absent from that city from the neck of which they had removed the
yoke of slavery; though the very consuls themselves professed to praise them in
their public harangues and in all their conversation. Those who were called
Veterans, men of whose safety this order had been most particularly careful,
were instigated not to the preservation of those things which they had, but to
cherish hopes of new booty. And as I preferred hearing of those things to seeing
them, and as I had an honorary commission as lieutenant, I went away, intending
to be present on the first of January, which appeared likely to be the first day
of assembling the senate.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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