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What great wickedness is it that I planned, what enormous crime did I
commit, O judges, when I traced out, and laid open, and revealed, and for
ever crushed those beginnings and signs of the general destruction that was
intended? For that is the spring from which all the distresses of myself and
my friends arise. Why did you wish me to return to my country? Was it in
order that I might look on while those men were being driven out, by whose
efforts I had been restored? Do not, I entreat you, suffer my return to be
more miserable than even my departure was. For how can I think that I have
been restored if I am torn from those men by whom I was restored?
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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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