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When you were sent as quaestor to the army, not
only as guardian of the money, but also of the consul; when you were the sharer in
all his business and of all his counsels, when you were considered by him as one of
his own children, according to the tenor of the principles of our ancestors; could
you on a sudden leave him? desert him? pass over to the enemy? O wickedness! O
monster to be banished to the very end of the world! For that nature which has
committed such an atrocity as this cannot be contented with this one crime alone. It
must be always contriving something of this sort; it must be occupied in similar
audacity and perfidy.
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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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