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Accordingly, in this year when the new
magistrates had been elected, when all good men turned their hopes towards
them and began to found expectations of a better state of things on their
honesty, Publius Lentulus, as the chief, took up my cause with his authority
and by the open declaration of his sentiments, in spite of the resistance of
Piso and Gabinius; and when
eight tribunes made a motion in my behalf, he spoke in favour of it in a
speech very honourable to me. And though he thought that it would redound
greatly to his glory, and would secure him gratitude as having performed a
most important service to the state, if that cause was not as yet proceeded
with, but was reserved entire for his consulship, still he preferred having
my business settled at once by others, to having it accomplished after delay
by himself.
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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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