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But the immortal gods, who received me on my arrival in their temples,
accompanied by these men and by Publius Lentulus the consul, and the
republic itself, than which there is nothing more holy, have entrusted these
things, O judges, to your power. You are able by your decision to encourage
the minds of all virtuous men, and to check the designs of the wicked; you
are able by your decision to avail yourselves of the services of the
virtuous citizens, to strengthen me, and to renew the republic. Wherefore, I
beseech and entreat you, if you wish for my safety, to save those men by
whose instrumentality you have recovered me.
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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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