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I will act, therefore, as commanders are in the habit of doing when their army is
ready for battle, who, although they see their soldiers ready to engage, still
address an exhortation to them; and in like manner I will exhort you who are
already eager and burning to recover your liberty. You have not—you
have not, indeed, O Romans, to war against an enemy with whom it is possible to
make peace on any terms whatever. For he does not now desire your slavery, as he
did before, but he is angry now and thirsts for your blood. No sport appears
more delightful to him than bloodshed, and slaughter, and the massacre of
citizens before his eyes.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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