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Wherefore it will be the greatest possible comfort to their relations, that by
the same monument are clearly displayed the valor of their kinsmen, and also
their piety, and the good faith of the senate, and the memory of this most
inhuman war, in which, if the valor of the soldiers had been less conspicuous,
the very name of the Roman people would have perished by the parricidal treason
of Marcus. Antonius. And I think also, O conscript fathers, that those rewards
which we promised to bestow on the soldiers when we had recovered the republic,
we should give with abundant usury to those who are alive and victorious when
the time comes; and that in the case of the men to whom those rewards were
promised, but who have died in the defense of their country, I think those same
rewards should be given to their parents or children, or wives or brothers.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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