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But these are all old stories now. This charge, however, is quite a modern one,
that Caesar was slain by my contrivance. I am afraid, O conscript fathers, lest
I should appear to you to have brought up a sham accuser against
myself (which is a most disgraceful thing to do); a man not only to distinguish
me by the praises which are my due, but to load me also with those which do not
belong to me. For who ever heard my name mentioned as an accomplice in that most
glorious action? and whose name has been concealed who was in the number of that
gallant band? Concealed, do I say? Whose name was there which was not at once
made public? I should sooner say that some men had boasted in order to appear to
have been concerned in that conspiracy, though they had in reality known nothing
of it than that any one who had been an accomplice in it could have wished to be
concealed.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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