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“Concerning me,” says he, “the Roman people and
all nations will be continually talking. The remotest ages will never be
silent about me. Even at this very time when the firebrands of envy are
being hurled against me by my enemies, still I am celebrated in every
company of men, who express their thanks to me, who congratulate themselves
on my conduct, who make me the sole topic of their conversation. I say
nothing of the days of festival, and sacrifice, and joyful celebration in
Etruria. This is the hundredth, or I rather think the hundred and first day
since the death of Publius Clodius; a day on which, wherever the boundaries
of the Roman empire extend, there did not only the report of, but the joy
caused by that occurrence penetrate. Wherefore,” said he,
“I am not anxious as to where this body of mine may be; since the
glory of my name already is and always will be in every country upon
earth.”
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