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Nor is it possible to pass over in silence
the virtue and the firmness and the dignity of the province of Gaul. For that is the flower of Italy; that is the bulwark of the empire of
the Roman people; that is the chief ornament of our dignity. But so perfect is
the unanimity of the municipal towns and colonies of the province of Gaul, that all men in that district appear to
have united together to defend the authority of this order, and the majesty of
the Roman people. Wherefore, O tribunes of the people, although you have not
actually brought any other business before us beyond the question of protection,
in order that the consuls may be able to hold the senate with safety on the
first of January, still you appear to me to have acted with great wisdom and
great prudence in giving an opportunity of debating the general circumstances of
the republic. For when you decided that the senate could not be held with safety
without some protection or other, you at the same time asserted by that decision
that the wickedness and audacity of Antonius was still continuing its practices
within our walls.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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