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‘“I am quite resolved to brook no insult either
to myself or to my friends; nor to desert that party which Pompeius hated,
nor to allow the veterans to be removed from their abodes; nor to allow
individuals to be dragged out to torture, nor to violate the faith which I
pledged to Dolabella.”’
I say nothing of the rest of this sentence, ‘“the faith pledged to Dolabella,”’ to that most holy
man, this pious gentleman will by no means violate. What faith? Was it a pledge
to murder every virtuous citizen, to partition the city and Italy, to distribute the provinces among, and
to hand them over to be plundered by, their followers? For what else was there
which could have been ratified by treaty and mutual pledges between Antonius and
Dolabella, those foul and parricidal traitors?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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