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And I wish, O
conscript fathers, that it was lawful for us to dispense rewards to all the
citizens, although we will give those which we have promised with the most
careful usury. But that remains, as I well hope, to the conquerors, to whom the
faith of the senate is pledged; and, as they have adhered to it at a most
critical period of the republic, we are bound to take care that they never have
cause to repent of their conduct. But it is easy for us to deal fairly by those
men whose very services, though mute, appear to demand our liberality. This is a
much more praiseworthy and more important duty, to pay a proper tribute of
grateful recollection to the valor of those men who have shed their blood in the
cause of their country.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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