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What other object had Caius Pansa in
holding the levies which he did, and in collecting money, and in carrying the
most severe resolutions of the senate against Antonius, and in exhorting us, and
in inviting the Roman people to embrace the cause of liberty, except to insure
the deliverance of Decimus Brutus? For the Roman people in crowds demanded at
his hands the safety of Decimus Brutus with such unanimous outcries, that he was
compelled to prefer it not only to any consideration of his own personal
advantage, but even to his own necessities. And that end we now, O conscript
fathers, are entitled to hope is either at the point of being achieved, or is
actually gained; but it is right for the reward of our hopes to be reserved for
the issue and event of the business, lest we should appear either to have
anticipated the kindness of the gods by our over precipitation, or to have
despised the bounty of fortune through our own folly.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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