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And your ancestors, O Romans, had to deal with an enemy who had also a republic,
a senate-house, a treasury, harmonious and united citizens, and with whom, if
fortune had so willed it, there might have been peace and treaties on settled
principles. But this enemy of yours is attacking your republic, but has none
himself; is eager to destroy the senate, that is to say, the council of the
whole world, but has no public council himself; he has exhausted your treasury,
and has none of his own. For how can a man be supported by the unanimity of his
citizens, who has no city at all? And what principles of peace can there be with
that man who is full of incredible cruelty, and destitute of faith?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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