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When you opposed that law, the Roman people, O Quintus Hortensius, thought that you, and the
others who held the same opinion with you, delivered your sentiments in a bold and gallant
spirit. But still, in a matter affecting the safety of the commonwealth, the Roman people
preferred consulting its own feelings of indignation to your authority. Accordingly, one law,
one man, and one year, delivered us not only from that misery and disgrace, but also caused us
again at length to appear really to be the masters of all nations and countries by land and
sea.
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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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