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And that
time, beyond all question, he exercised regal power, though he
re-established the republic. There is at this moment a hatred not concealed
but implanted deeply, and burnt as it were into their minds, subsisting
between men of the very highest rank. The chief men of the state are at
variance. Every occasion is eagerly caught at. That party which is not so
powerful as the other is nevertheless waiting for some change of fortune and
for some favourable opportunity. That party which without dispute is the
more powerful, is still perhaps at times afraid of the designs
and opinions of its enemies. Let this discord be which are foreshown by
these prodigies will be banished from the state. In a moment that serpent
which is at present lurking about here will emerge and be brought to light,
and will be strangled, and crushed, and die.
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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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