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He had brought down from the Apennines
rustic and barbarian slaves, whom you saw, with whom he had ravaged the
public woods and Etruria. The matter was not concealed at all. In truth he
used to say undisguisedly that the consulship could not be taken from Milo,
but that life could. He often hinted as much in the senate he said it
plainly in the public assembly. Besides, when Favonius, a brave man, asked
him what he hoped for by giving way to such madness while Milo was alive? he
answered him, that in three, or at most in four days, he would be dead. And
this saying of his Favonius immediately reported to Marcus Cato, who is here
present.
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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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