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After these decrees of yours, will it
be possible for him to look upon you with equanimity, or for you to behold him
without the most excessive indignation! He has been excluded and cut off and
wholly separated from the republic, not merely by his own wickedness, as it
seems to me, but by some especial good fortune of the republic. And if he should
comply with the demands of the ambassadors and return to Rome, do you suppose that abandoned citizens
will ever be in need of a standard around which to rally? But this is not what I
am so much afraid of. There are other things which I am more apprehensive of and
more alarmed at. He never will comply with the demands of the ambassadors. I
know the man's insanity and arrogance; I know the desperate counsels of his
friends, to which he is wholly given up.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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