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Therefore I know for a certainty that you
are not thirsting for blood, but you give no heed to the effect of your
prosecution. For the transaction has this tendency, to make you seem not
contented with that punishment under which Quintus Ligarius is at present
suffering. What further punishment then is there but death? For if he is in
exile, as he is, what more do you require? That he may never be pardoned?
But this is much more bitter and much harsher. That which we begged for at
his house with prayers and tears, throwing ourselves at his feet, trusting
not so much to the strength of our cause as to his humanity, will you now
struggle to prevent our obtaining? Will you interrupt our weeping? and will
you forbid us to speak, lying at his feet with the voice suppliants?
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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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