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After that what a return was that of yours to Rome! How great was the agitation of the whole city! We
recollected Cinna being too powerful; after him we had seen Sulla with absolute
authority, and we had lately beheld Caesar acting as king. There were perhaps
swords, but they were sheathed, and they were not very numerous. But how great
and how barbaric a procession is yours! Men follow you in battle array with
drawn swords; we see whole litters full of shields borne along. And yet by
custom, O conscript fathers, we have become inured and callous to these things,
When on the first of June we wished to come to the senate, as it had been
ordained, we were suddenly frightened and forced to flee.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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