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Decimus Brutus, that most excellent citizen and
consummate general, adorned the approaches to his temples and monuments with the verses of
Attius. And lately that great man Fulvius, who fought with the Aetolians, having Ennius for
his companion, did not hesitate to devote the spoils of Mars to the Muses. Wherefore, in a
city in which generals, almost in arms, have paid respect to the name of poets and to the
temples of the Muses, these judges in the garb of peace ought not to act in a manner
inconsistent with the honour of the Muses and the safety of poets.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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