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I now, O Romans, having been restored to myself, to my friends, and to the republic, owing
to the evidence of so many men, by this authority of the senate—by such great
unanimity of all Italy—by such great zeal on the part of all good men—by
the particular agency of Publius Lentulus, with the cooperation of all the other
magistrates—while Cnaeus Pompeius was begging for my recall, and while all men
favoured it and even the immortal gods showed their approbation of it by the fertility and
abundance and cheapness of the crops,—promise you, O Romans, all that I can do. In
the first place, I promise that I will always feel that reverential attachment to the Roman
people which the most religious men are accustomed to feel for the immortal gods, and that
your deity shall for the whole of my life be considered by me equally important and holy with
that of the immortal gods. In the second place, since it is the republic herself that has
brought me back into the city, I promise that I will on no occasion fail the republic.
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