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O Caius Caesar (I am speaking of the young man), what safety have you brought to
the republic! How unforeseen has it been! how sudden! for if he did these things
when flying, what would he have done when he was pursuing? In truth, he had said
in a harangue that he would be the guardian of the city; and that he would keep
his army at the gates of the city till the first of May. What a fine guardian
(as the proverb goes) is the wolf of the sheep! Would Antonius have been a
guardian of the city, or its plunderer and destroyer? And he said too that he
would come into the city and go out as he pleased. What more need I say? Did he
not say, in the hearing of all the people, while sitting in front of the temple
of Castor, that no one should remain alive but the conqueror?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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