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Wherefore, as I have said before, go forth, and if you
to make me, your enemy as you call me, unpopular, go straight into banishment. I shall
scarcely be able to endue all that will be said if you do so; I shall scarcely be able to
support my load of unpopularity if you do go into banishment at the command of the consul;
but if you wish serve my credit and reputation, go forth with your ill-omened band of
profligates; betake yourself to Manilius, rouse up the abandoned citizens, separate yourself
from the good ones, wage war against your country, exult in your impious banditti, so that
you may not seem to have been driven out by me and gone to strangers, but to have gone
invited to your own friends.
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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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