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Therefore, when you, flourishing and powerful, were triumphing in the middle
of your mob, those friends of yours, safe and happy in having you for their
only friend, who had entrusted their fate to the people, were repelled1 in such a way that
they lost the support of even that Palatine2 tribe of yours. They who came
before a court of justice, whether as prosecutors or as defendants, were
condemned, though you endeavoured to beg them off. Lastly, even that new
recruit, Ligur, your venal backer and seconder, when he had been disgraced
by being passed over in the will of Marcus Papirius his brother, who
expressed his opinion of him by that action, said that he desired to have a
legal investigation into the circumstances of his death, and accused Sextus
Propertius as accessory to it. He did not venture to accuse his partners of
a crime in which they had no concern, and to endeavour to procure their
condemnation, lest he himself should have been convicted of bringing false
accusations.
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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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