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With this design all the deputations begged of Lucius Metellus that he would come
as his successor as early as possible; with these feelings, they so often bewailed
their miseries to their patrons; agitated by this indignation, they addressed the
consuls with demands, which seemed to be not demands, but charges against that
tyrant. They contrived also, by their indignation and their tears, to draw me, whose
good faith and moderation they had experienced, almost from the employment of my
life, in order to become his accuser; an action with which both the settled plan of
my life and my inclination are utterly inconsistent (although in this business I
appear to have undertaken a cause which has more parts of defence than of accusation
in it).
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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