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“Oh, but he sent to Caecilius; I don't know who it was he sent,
but he threw those whom he sent or rather ordered to go, into prison,
because they would not go.” I do not stop to ask how far it is
probable that a king should have had no one to send; or that those whom he
ordered to go should not have obeyed him; or how it was that those men who
refused obedience in so important an affair, were put in prison, and not
executed; but still, when he was sending to Caecilius,1 was he ignorant that that party had been defeated, or
did he think that Caecilius a person of great importance? a man whom he, who
was well acquainted with our leading men, would have despised because he
knew him, and just as much because he did not know him.
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1 This was Quintius Caecilius Brassus, a zealous partisan of Pompey's, who after the battle of Pharsalia collected some of the remnants of his army in Syria, with which he afterwards joined Cassius after the death of Caesar.
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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