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You have said that Publius Clodius was slain by my contrivance. What would men
have thought if he had been slain at the time when you pursued him in the forum
with a drawn sword, in the sight of all the Roman people; and when you would
have settled his business if he had not thrown himself up the stairs of a
bookseller's shop, and, shutting them against you, checked your attack by that
means? And I confess that at that time I favoured you, but even you yourself do
not say that I had advised your attempt. But as for Milo, it was not possible even for me to favour his action. For
he had finished the business before any one could suspect that he was going to
do it. Oh, but I advised it. I suppose Milo was a man of such a disposition that he was not able to do
a service to the republic if he had not some one to advise him to do it. But I
rejoiced at it. Well, suppose I did; was I to be the only sorrowful person in
the city, when every one else was in such delight?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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