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Some said, (and I
myself am of that opinion,) that the immortal gods had shown their
approbation of my return by this exercise of their power. But some traced
that fact back, connecting it with this argument and
opinion,—that, as all hopes of tranquillity and concord appeared
to depend on my return, and as there was an incessant dread of sedition
connected with my absence, so now that all fear of contest was almost at an
end, they thought that the state of the corn-market was altered; and,
because it again had become more unmanageable after my return, then corn was
demanded of me, on whose arrival virtuous men were in the habit of saying
that there would be cheapness.
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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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