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For the deed is so great a one, that I can not compare the
unpopularity which you wish to excite against me on account of it, with its real
glory.
For who can be happier than those men whom you boast of having now expelled and
driven from the city? What place is there either so deserted or so uncivilized,
as not to seem to greet and to covet the presence of those men wherever they
have arrived? What men are so clownish as not, when they have once beheld them,
to think that they have reaped the greatest enjoyment that life can give? And
what posterity will be ever so forgetful, what literature will ever be found so
ungrateful, as not to cherish their glory with undying recollection? Enroll me
then, I beg, in the number of those men.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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