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Moreover, how likely it is, that
among such a number of men, some obscure, some young men who had not the wit to
conceal any one, my name could possibly have escaped notice? Indeed, if leaders
were wanted for the purpose of delivering the country, what need was there of my
instigating the Bruti, one of whom saw every day in his house the image of
Lucius Brutus, and the other saw also the image of Ahala? Were these the men to
seek counsel from the ancestors of others rather than from their own? and but of
doors rather than at home? What? Caius Cassius, a man of that family which could
not endure, I will not say the domination, but even the power of any
individual,—he, I suppose, was in need of me to instigate him? a man
who even without the assistance of these other most illustrious men, would have
accomplished this same deed in Cilicia,
at the mouth of the river Cydnus, if Caesar had brought his ships to that bank
of the river which he had intended, and not to the opposite one.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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