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After a very long interval, almost beyond the memory of
our times, you have for the first time made me, a new man, consul; and you have opened that
rank which the nobles have held strengthened by guards, and fenced round in every possible
manner, in my instance first, and have resolved that it should in future be open to virtue.
Nor have you only made me consul, though that is of itself a most honourable thing, but you
have made me so in such a way as very few nobles in this city have ever been made consuls
before in, and no new man whatever before me.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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