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But will you allow this portico to stand on the Palatine Hill, and on the most beautiful spot in the whole
city, erected as an everlasting token to keep alive the recollection of all
nations and of all foes of the frenzy of the tribunes, of the wickedness of
the consuls of the cruelty of the conspirators, of the calamity of the
republic, and of my sufferings? A portico which, out of the affection which
you have and always have had for the republic, you ought to wish to pull
down, not only by your votes, but, if it were necessary, even by your hands.
Unless, perchance, the religious consecration of it by that chastest of
pontiffs deters any one.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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