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“Come forward, come forward, Lucullus, Servilius, while I dedicate
the house of Cicero. Come, stand before me, and take hold of the
door-post.” You are, in truth, a man of extraordinary audacity and
impudence, but still your eyes, and countenance, and voice would have failed
you while those men who, by their dignity, upheld the character of the Roman
people and the authority of the empire, were striking terror into you by
their dignified language, and saying that it would be impious for them to be
present at your frantic deeds, and at such wicked and parricidal attacks on
the country.
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