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For at present, O priests, I am
not only deprived of my house, which you are at present inquiring into, but
of the whole city, to which I appear to be restored. In the most frequented
and finest part of the city, look to that (I will not say monument, but)
wound of the country. And as you must see that that sight is to me one which
is more to be detested and avoided than death itself; do not, I entreat you,
allow that man by whose return you have thought that the republic too would
be restored, to be deprived not only of the ornaments suited to his dignity,
but even of his part in the city.
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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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