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He says that his own household of slaves did
it. How? By men armed, with violence. With what intention? That that might be done which was
done. What is that? That the men of Marcus Tullius might be slain. If, then, they contrived
all these circumstances with this intention, so that men assembled in one place, and armed
themselves, and then marched with fixed resolution to an appointed place, chose a suitable
time, and committed a massacre,—if they intended all this and planned it, and
effected it,—can you separate that intention, that design, and that act from malice?
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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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