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whom I do not mention in this place, only lest my
speech, if I say too little of any one, should seem ungrateful
and if I were to say enough of each individual, interminable.
Turn now to the harangue of that same enemy of mine concerning me the same
person of whom those great men had been speaking, delivered in the Campus
Martins, to a genuine assembly of the people. Who was there who (I will not
say approved of it but who) did not think it a most scandalous thing that he
should be allowed to live and breathe at all, much less to speak? Who was
there who did not think that the republic was polluted by his voice and that
he himself, if he only listened to him was implicated in his wickedness?
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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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