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Men have been recalled from banishment by a dead man; the freedom of the city has
been conferred not only on individuals, but on entire nations and provinces by a
dead man; our revenues have been diminished by the granting of
countless exemptions by a dead man. Therefore, do we defend these measures which
have been brought from his house on the authority of a single, but, I admit, a
very excellent individual; and as for the laws which he, in your presence, read,
and declared, and passed,—in the passing of which he gloried, and on
which he believed that the safety of the republic depended, especially those
concerning provinces and concerning judicial proceedings,—can we, I
say, we who defend the acts of Caesar, think that those laws deserve to be
upset?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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