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And if these things seem bitter and
miserable and grievous if they are most foreign to your general clemency and merciful
disposition, O judges, then maintain the kindness done to him by the Roman people restore the
consul to the republic grant this to his own modesty, grant it to his dead father, grant it to
his race and family, grant it also to Lanuvium, that most honourable municipality, the whole
population of which you have seen watching this cause with tears and mourning. Do not tear
from his ancestral sacrifices to Juno Sospita, to whom all consuls are hound to offer
sacrifice, a consul who is so peculiarly her own. Him, if my recommendation has any weight if
my solemn assertion has any authority, I now recommend to you, O judges—I the consul
recommend him to you as consul, promising and undertaking that he will prove most desirous of
tranquillity, most anxious to consult the interests of virtuous men, very active against
sedition, very brave in war, and an irreconcilable enemy to this conspiracy, which is at this
moment seeking to undermine the republic.
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