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And afterward without either performing the usual sacrifices or offering the
customary vows, he, I will not say went forth, but took to flight in his robe as
a general. But which way did he flee? To the province of our most resolute and
bravest citizens, men who could never have endured him if he had not come
bringing war in his train, an intemperate, passionate, insolent, proud man,
always making demands, always plundering, always drunk. But he, whose
worthlessness even when quiet was more than any one could endure, has declared
war upon the province of Gaul; he is
besieging Mutina, a valiant and
splendid colony of the Roman people; he is blockading Decimus Brutus, the
general, the consul-elect, a citizen born not for himself, but for us and 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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