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Therefore Publius Apuleius, a tribune of the people, who ever since my consulship
has been the witness and partaker of, and my assistant in all my designs and all
my dangers, could not endure the grief of witnessing my indignation. He convened
a numerous assembly, as the whole Roman people were animated with one feeling on
the subject. And when in the harangue which he then made, he, as was natural
from our great intimacy and friendship, was going to exculpate me from all
suspicion in the matter of the fasces, the whole
assembly cried out with one voice, that I had never had any intentions with
regard to the republic which were not excellent. After this assembly was over,
within two or three hours, these most welcome messengers and letters arrived, so
that the same day not only delivered me from a most unjust odium, but increased
my credit by that most extraordinary act with which the Roman people
distinguished me
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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