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If Caesar himself were alive, could he, do you imagine, defend his own acts more
vigorously than that most gallant man Hirtius defends them? or, is it possible
that any one should be found more friendly to the cause than his son? But the
one of these, though not long recovered from a year long attack of a most severe
disease, has applied all the energy and influence which he had to defending the
liberty of those men by whose prayers he considered that he himself had been
recalled from death; the other, stronger in the strength of his virtue than in
that of his age, has set out with those very veterans to deliver Decimus Brutus.
Therefore, those men who are both the most certain and at the same time the most
energetic defenders of the acts of Caesar, are waging war for the safety of
Decimus Brutus; and they are followed by the veterans. For they see that they
must fight to the uttermost for the freedom of the Roman people, not for their
own advantages.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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