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As soon as he perceived this, by the advice of his friends and relations he fled to
Rome, and betook himself to Caecilia, the
daughter of Nepos, (whom I name to do her honour,) with whom his father had been
exceedingly intimate; a woman in whom, O judges, even now, as all men are of opinion, as
if it were to serve as a model, traces of the old-fashioned virtue remain. She received
into her house Sextus Roscius, helpless, turned and driven out of his home and property,
flying from the weapons and threats of robbers, and she assisted her guest now that he
was overwhelmed and now that his safety was despaired of by every one. By her virtue and
good faith and diligence it has been caused that he now is rather classed as a living
man among the accused, than as a dead man among the proscribed.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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