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Do you at all recollect you wretch, what answer you
gave? an answer at which all those men, but especially Torquatus above all,
were in a fury at the insolence of your reply, when you said that you were
not as brave as Torquatus had been in his consulship, or as I had been; that
there was no need of arms, nor of a contest; that it was in my power a
second time to save the republic by yielding to the storm; that there would
be endless bloodshed if I resisted; and at the last he said, that neither he
nor his son-in-law nor his colleague would desert the tribune of the people.
And now, you enemy and traitor, do you say that I ought to be a more
determined enemy to any one else than to you?
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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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