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On the opposite side stands the further Spain, which is able in this case not only to withstand the
eagerness of the accusers by its own honest disposition, but which can even refute the
perjuries of wicked men by its testimonies and by its panegyrics. And even from Gaul itself most faithful and most important assistance is
derived. As an assistance to this unhappy and innocent man, the city of the Massilians has
come forward, which is labouring now, not only in order to appear to requite with proper
gratitude the exertions of the man by whom it has been preserved, but which also believes that
it has been placed in those districts for that very object, and with that express destiny, to
prevent those nations from being able to injure our countrymen.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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