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In truth, as there is no medium between war and
peace, it is quite plain that a tumult, if it be not a sort of war, must be a
sort of peace; and what more absurd can be said or imagined? However, we have
said too much about a word, let us rather look to the facts, O conscript
fathers, the appreciation of which, I know, is at times injured by too much
attention being paid to words.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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