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On what day was the senate ever more joyful than on that
day? or when was the Roman people more delighted? which had never met in greater
numbers in any assembly whatever. Then, at last, we did appear to have been
really delivered by brave men, because, as they had willed it to be, peace was
following liberty. On the next day, on the day after that, on the third day, and
on all the following days, you were on without intermission, giving every day,
as it were, some fresh present to the republic; but the greatest of all presents
was that, when you abolished the name of the dictatorship. This was in effect
branding the name of the dead Caesar with everlasting ignominy, and it was your
doing,—yours, I say. For as, on account of the wickedness of one
Marcus Manlius, by a resolution of the
Manlian family it is unlawful that any patrician should be called Manlius, so
you, on account of the hatred excited by one dictator, have utterly abolished
the name of dictator.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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