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Was
there then no danger to me whatever in a court of justice; but was I to fear
a private bill, and that if a penalty were sought to be recovered from me
while I was present, no one would interpose a veto? Was I so destitute of
friends, or was the republic so entirely without magistrates? What?
supposing the tribes had been convoked, would they have approved of a
proscription, I will not say against me who had deserved so well of them by
my efforts for their safety, but would they have approved of it in the case
of any citizen whatever? Or, if I had been present, would those veteran
troops of conspirators, and those profligate and needy soldiers of yours,
and that new force of two most impious consuls, have spared my person, when,
after that I had, by departing, succumbed to their inhumanity and
wickedness, I could not though absent satisfy their hostility to me by my
misfortunes?
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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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