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These then were the feelings which Publius Sestius brought to his tribuneship
that I may forbear to speak of his quaestorship,—and come at last
to things nearer to ourselves. Although I must not omit to speak of that
singular integrity of his in the province of which I lately saw traces in
Macedonia, not lightly
imprinted to celebrate something for a short time, but fixed in the
everlasting recollection of that province. But, however, we will pass over
all these things, though not with out turning back and fixing one last look
upon them.
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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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