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and Lucius Domitius, whose dignity and
respectability of character, I suppose, blinded the eyes of Vatinius, and
whom you hated at the moment on account of your common hatred of all
virtuous men and whom you had long feared with reference to the future on
account of the hopes which all men had conceived, and indeed do still
entertain of him; and Lucius Lentulus, this man who is one of our judges
now—the priest of Mars because he was at that time a competitor of
your dear friend Gabinius—all these you wished to crush by means
of the information of this same Vettius. But if Lentulus had then defeated
that disgrace and pest of the republic, which he was prevented from doing by
your wickedness, the republic would not have been defeated; moreover, you
wished by means of the same information and the same accusation to involve
his son in his father's ruin. You comprehended in the same information of
Vettius and in the same body of criminals, Lucius Paullus, who was at the
time quaestor in Macedonia. How
good a citizen! how great a man! who had already banished by his laws two
impious traitors to their country, domestic enemies; a man born for the
salvation of the republic.
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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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