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And just recollect the whole of his conduct during
his consulship from that day up to the ides of March. What lictor was ever so
humble, so abject? He himself had no power at all; he begged every thing of
others; and thrusting his head into the hind part of his litter, he begged
favors of his colleagues, to sell them himself afterward.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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