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Would the consuls have been vigorous in bridling the praetor? In the first
place, if Milo had been slain, he would have had his own consuls. Secondly,
what consul would have behaved fearlessly against him as praetor, who
remembered that he, when tribune, had offered the most cruel injuries to the
virtue of the consuls? He would have oppressed everything; he would have
taken possession and held possession of everything. By a new law, the
draught of which was found in his house, with the rest of the Clodian laws,
he would have made all our slaves his own freedmen. Lastly, if the immortal
gods had not inspired him with such ideas that he, an effeminate creature,
attempted to slay a most gallant man, you would have no republic at all this
day.
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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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