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For both
Brutus and Cassius have in many instances been a senate to themselves. For it is
quite inevitable that in such a confusion and disturbance of all things men
should be guided by the present emergency rather than by precedent. Nor will
this be the first time that either Brutus or Cassius has considered the safety
and deliverance of his country his most holy law and his most excellent
precedent. Therefore, if there were no motion submitted to us about the pursuit
of Dolabella, still I should consider it equivalent to a decree, when there were
men of such a character for virtue, authority, and the greatest nobleness,
possessing armies, one of which is already known to us, and the other has been
abundantly heard of.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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