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O miserable man if you are aware, more miserable still if you are not aware, that
this is recorded in writings, is handed down to men's recollection, that our
very latest posterity in the most distant ages will never forget this fact, that
the consuls were expelled from Italy,
and with them Cnaeus Pompeius, who was the glory and light of the empire of the
Roman people; that all the men of consular rank, whose health would allow them
to share in that disaster and that flight, and the praetors, and men of
praetorian rank, and the tribunes of the people, and a great part of the senate,
and all the flower of the youth of the city, and, in a word, the republic itself
was driven out and expelled from its abode.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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