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But, as I
take the fact to have been, Pompeius was rather taking precautions than
feeling any actual alarm, guarding not only against those things which it
was reasonable to fear, but also against everything which could possibly
disquiet you.
The house of Caius Caesar, that most illustrious and gallant man, was
besieged, as was reported during many hours of the night. No one in that
frequented part of the city had either seen or heard of any such thing.
Still such a report spread about. I could not possibly suspect Cnaeus
Pompeius, a man of the most admirable valour, of being timid; and thought no
diligence could be over-strained in a man who had undertaken the management
and protection of the whole of the republic. In a very full meeting of the
senate, lately held in the Capitol, a senator was found to say that Milo had
a weapon about him. He threw back his garments in that most sacred temple,
that, since the life of so good a citizen and so good a man could not
procure him credit the facts themselves might speak for him while he held
his peace.
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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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