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But take notice of the arrogance and
insolence of the fellow. As long as you please, Dolabella is a consul
irregularly elected; again, while you please, he is a consul elected with all
proper regard to the auspices. If it means nothing when an augur gives this
notice in those words in which you gave notice, then confess that you, when you
said,—“We adjourn this to another
day,”—were not sober. But if those words have any meaning,
then I, an augur, demand of my colleague to know what that meaning is.
But, lest by any chance, while enumerating his numerous exploits, our speech
should pass over the finest action of Marcus Antonius, let us come to the
Lupercalia.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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