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One man
alone was found to dare to do that which the audacity of every one else had
shrunk from and shuddered at. Were you, then, seized with such
stupidity,—or, I should rather say, with such insanity,—as
not to see that if you, being of the rank in which you were born, acted as a
broker at all, and above all as a broker in the case of Pompeius property, you
would be execrated and hated by the Roman people, and that all gods and all men
must at once become and for ever continue hostile to you? But with what violence
did that glutton immediately proceed to take possession of the property of that
man, to whose valor it had been owing that the Roman people had been more
terrible to foreign nations, while his justice had made it dearer to them.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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