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You were made tribune of the people, (for why need I put questions to you
about the iniquities and most sordid robberies which you committed in
Spain?) I ask of you first in a
general manner what description of dishonesty and wickedness did you omit to
practise in your discharge of that office? And I now give you this
warning,—not to mix up your own infamy with the high character of
most eminent men. I, in whatever questions I put to you, will question you
yourself only, and I will drag you forth not from the dignity of a great
man, which you affect, but from your own obscurity and darkness. And all my
weapons shall be directed at you in such a manner, that no one else shall be
wounded (to use an expression of your own) through your side; my arrows
shall stick in your lungs and in your entrails.
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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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