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I praise you,—yes, I praise you greatly, O Romans, when you follow with
the most grateful minds the name of that most illustrious youth, or rather boy;
for his actions belong to immortality, the name of youth only to his age. I can
recollect many things; I have heard of many things; I have read of many things;
but in the whole history of the whole world I have never known any thing like
this. For, when we were weighed down with slavery, when the evil was daily
increasing, when we had no defense, while we were in dread of the pernicious and
fatal return of Marcus Antonius from Brundusium, this young man adopted the design which none of us
had ventured to hope for, which beyond all question none of us were acquainted
with, of raising an invincible army of his father's soldiers, and so hindering
the frenzy of Antonius, spurred on as it was by the most inhuman counsels, from
the power of doing mischief 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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