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Nothing, O conscript fathers, has ever seemed to me longer than these calends of
January; and I think that for the last few days you have all been feeling the
same thing. For those who are waging war against the republic have not waited
for this day. But we, while it would have been most especially proper for us to
come to the aid of the general safety with our counsel, were not summoned to the
senate. However, the speech just addressed to us by the consuls has removed our
complaints as to what is past, for they have spoken in such a manner that the
calends of January seem to have been long wished for rather than really to have
arrived late.
And while the speeches of the consuls have encouraged my mind, and have given me
a hope, not only of preserving our safety, but even of recovering our former
dignity; on the other hand, the opinion of the man who has been asked for his
opinion first would have disturbed me, if I had not confidence in your virtue
and firmness.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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