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But I come back now to that splendid harangue of yours. You are the man who
disapprove of cruelty, are you? you who, when the senate had decided on
displaying its grief and indignation by a change of their garments, and when
you saw that the whole republic was grieving in the mourning of its most
honourable order, you, O merciful man, what do you do? Why,
what no tyrant in any country of barbarians ever dreamt of. For, I say
nothing of the fact of a consul issuing an edict, that the senate should not
obey a resolution of the senate; an action than which none more shameful can
either be done or imagined. I return to the merciful disposition of that
man, who thinks that the senate were over cruel in preserving the country.
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