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Formerly, when I used the words War or
Enemy, men more than once objected to record my proposition among the other
propositions. But that can not be done on the present occasion. For in
consequence of the letters of Caius Pansa and Aulus Hirtius, the consuls, and of
Caius Caesar, propraetor, we have all voted that honors be paid to the immortal
gods. The very man who lately proposed and carried a vote for a supplication,
without intending it pronounced those men enemies; for a supplication has never
been decreed for success in civil war. Decreed, do I say? It has never even been
asked for in the letters of the conqueror.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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