[31]
When you were going in your robes as generals into those—provinces
which you had (shall I say bought or stolen?) did any one consider you
consuls? Therefore, I imagine, even if men did abstain from escorting you on
your departure from the city with a numerous attendance to pay you a
compliment and do honour to you, at all events they followed you with their
good wishes as consuls, but with curses as enemies or traitors.
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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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