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And in this matter I myself am a witness in favour of Marcus Marcellus. For
as our opinions have at all times agreed in time of peace, so did they then
in respect of that man. How often have I seen him affected with the deepest
grief at the insolence of certain men, and dreading also the ferocity of
victory! On which account your liberality, O Caius Caesar, ought to he more
acceptable to us who have seen those things. For now we may compare, not the
causes of the two parties together, but the use which each would have made
of victory.
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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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