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For when by his influence he inclined
Magnus Pompeius, a most admirable young man, the son of one of the greatest of
men, to peace, and without arms released the republic from imminent danger of
civil war, by so doing he laid me under as great obligations as it was in the
power of any man to do. Therefore I proposed to decree to him the most ample
honors that were in my power, in which you agreed with me; nor have I ceased
both to think and speak in the highest terms of him. The republic has Marcus
Lepidus bound to it by many pledges. He is a man of the highest rank, of the
greatest honors; he has the most honorable priesthood, and has received
numberless distinctions in the city. There are monuments of himself, and of his
brother, and of his ancestors; he has a most excellent wife, children such as
any man might desire, an ample family estate, untainted with the blood of his
fellow-citizens. No citizen has been injured by him; many have been delivered
from misery by his kindness and pity. Such a man and such a citizen may indeed
err in his opinion, but it is quite impossible for him in inclination to be
unfriendly to the republic.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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