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But why are we speaking so long about one enemy; and about that enemy who now avows that he
is one; and whom I now do not fear, because, as I have always wished, a wall is between us;
and are saying nothing about those who dissemble, who remain at Rome, who are among us? Whom, indeed, if it were by any means possible, I
should be anxious not so much to chastise as to cure, and to make friendly to the republic;
nor, if they will listen to me, do I quite know why that may not be. For I will tell you, O
Romans, of what classes of men those forces are made up, and then, if I can, I will apply to
each the medicine of my advice and persuasion.
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