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And that the people of Gades may not
think,—although they suffer no actual personal
inconvenience,—if it is lawful for their citizens to acquire the
freedom of our city as a reward for their virtue, that still in this respect
their treaty is a more unfavourable one than that which has been made with
the other states, I will console those who are present here,—most
excellent men,—and also that city which has ever been most
faithful and most friendly to us, and at the same time I will put you in
mind, O judges, though you are not ignorant of the truth, that there has
never hitherto been the slightest doubt expressed about that privilege
concerning which this trial has been appointed.
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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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