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And as this is the case, O priests, recall now your attention from this
subtle argument of ours to the general state and interests of the republic,
which you have before now had many gallant men to assist you in supporting,
but which in this cause you are upholding on your own shoulders alone. To
you the whole future authority of the senate, which you yourselves always
led in a most admirable manner during the discussion of my case; to you that
most glorious agitation of Italy, and that thronging hither of all the municipal
towns; to you the Campus Martius,
and the unanimous voice of all the centuries, of which you were the chiefs
and leaders; to you every company in the city every rank of men all men who
have any property or any hopes, think that all their zeal for my dignity,
all their decisions in my favour are not only entrusted, but put wholly
under your protection.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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