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You read letters in the assembly which you said had been sent to you by Caius
Caesar. “Caesar to Pulcher.” And when you proceeded to
argue that this was a proof of intimacy, because he only used the names of
himself and you, and did not add “proconsul,” or
“tribune of the people,” and then began to congratulate
you that you had got Marcus Cato out of the way of your tribuneship for the
remainder of the time, and that you had also taken away for the future the
power of giving extraordinary commissions;—letters which he never
sent to you at all, or which, if he did send them, he certainly never meant
to be read in the public assembly;—at all events, whether he sent
them or whether you forged them, your intention with respect to the honours
conferred upon Cato was revealed by the reading of those letters.
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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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