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But I will say nothing of what is past. When Cnaeus Pompeius embraced my
cause with all his energies, using all his exertions, and encountering even
danger to his life for my sake; when he was going round to the municipal
towns to plead my cause, and was imploring the good faith of all Italy; when he was continually sitting by
Publius Lentulus, the consul, the author of my safety; when he was always
delivering his opinion to the senate, and when in all his harangues he was
not only professing himself the defender of my safety, but was descending
even to supplications in my behalf; he then took to himself as a companion
of and an assistant in his zeal for me, Caius Caesar, whom he knew to have
the very greatest influence, and to be no enemy of mine. You see now that I
am not an antagonist of yours, not an enemy to you; and that, as for those
men whom you hint at, I am bound not only not to be offended with them, but
to be a friend to them. One of them, and I will take care always to remember
it, has been as great a friend to me as to himself; the other, what I will
forget some day or other, certainly was more of a friend to himself than to
me.
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