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Then there are others too, of
tribunitian rank: in the first place, Titus Plancus; a man who, if he had had
any affection for the senate, would never have burned the senate-house. Having
been condemned for which wickedness, he returned to that city by force of arms
from which he was driven by the power of the law. But, however, this is a case
common to him and to many others who are very unlike him. But this is quite true
which men are in the habit of saying of this. Plancus in a proverbial way, that
it is quite impossible for him to die unless his legs are broken.1 They are
broken, and still he lives. But this, like many others, is a service that has
been done us by Aquila.
1 That is, without being crucified as a slave.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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