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‘“Consider then, both of you, whether it is
more becoming and more advantageous for your party, for you to seek to
avenge the death of Trebonius, or that of Caesar; and whether it is more
reasonable for you and me to meet in battle, in order that the cause of the
Pompeians, which has so frequently had its throat cut, may the more easily
revive; or to agree together, so as not to be a laughing-stock to our
enemies.”’
If its throat had been cut, it never could revive. ‘“Which,”’ says he, ‘“is more becoming.”’ In this war he talks of what is
becoming!
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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