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Do you think, then, O Marcus Lepidus, that the Antonii will be to the republic
such citizens as she will find Pompeius? In the one there is modesty gravity,
moderation, integrity; in them (and when I speak of them I do not mean to omit
one of that band of pirates) there is lust and wickedness and savage audacity
capable of every crime I entreat of you, O conscript fathers which of you fails
to see this which Fortune herself, who is called blind, sees? For, saving the
acts of Caesar, which we maintain for the sake of harmony, his own house will be
open to Pompeius and he will redeem it for the same sum for which Antonius
bought it. Yes, I say the son of Cnaeus Pompeius will buy back his house. O
melancholy circumstance! But these things have been already lamented long and
bitterly enough. You have voted a sum of money to Cnaeus Pompeius, equal to that
which his conquering enemy had appropriated to himself of his father's property
in the distribution of his booty.
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