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Wherefore, if any one of those things which Deiotarus has been accused of,
really was thought of, he does not object to your thinking the crime his. I
entreat you, O Caius Caesar, to consider that on this day your sentence will
bring on those kings either most miserable calamity, accompanied with
infinite disgrace, or an unsullied reputation attended with safety; and to
desire the one of those results would be an act of cruelty, to secure the
other is an action suitable to your clemency.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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