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Why then was it that most gallant man, my
own colleague and intimate friend, Aulus Hirtius the consul, has set out? And in
what delicate health he is; how wasted away! But the weak state of his body
could not repress the vigor of his mind. He thought it fair, I suppose, to
expose to danger in defense of the Roman people that life which had been
preserved to him by their prayers.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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