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You are accustomed, O Caius Caesar, not only to he prevailed upon by
entreaties easily, but to he prevailed on once for all. No enemy has ever
been reconciled to you who has found any remnant of hostility remaining in
your breast afterwards. Although, who is there who has not heard of your
complaints against king Deiotarus? You have never accused him as being an
enemy to you, but as being a friend very slack in his duty,
because his inclination led him more to friendships with Cnaeus Pompeius
than with you. And yet that very fact you said that you would have pardoned,
if when he sent reinforcements and even his son to Pompeius, he had himself
availed himself of the excuse furnished him by his age.
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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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