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And the same thing had happened in the previous
civil wars. For though a supplication was decreed in my honor when I was consul,
though no arms had been had recourse to at all, still that was voted by a new
and wholly unprecedented kind of decree, not for the slaughter of enemies, but
for the preservation of the citizens. Wherefore, a supplication on account of
the affairs of the republic having been successfully conducted must, O conscript
fathers, be refused by you even though your generals demand it; a stigma which
has never been affixed on any one except Gabinius; or else, by the mere fact of
decreeing a supplication, it is quite inevitable that you must pronounce those
men, for whose defeat you do decree it, enemies of the state.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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