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For those guards which you behold in front of all the temples, although they
are placed there as a protection against violence, yet they bring no aid to
the orator, so that even in the forum and in the court of justice itself,
although we are protected with all military and necessary defences, yet we
cannot be entirely without fear. But if I thought this adverse to Milo, I
should yield to the times, O judges, and among such a crowd of armed men, I
should think there was no room for an orator. But the wisdom of Cnaeus
Pompeius, a most wise and just man, strengthens and encourages me, who would
certainly neither think it suitable to his justice to deliver that man up to
the weapons of the soldiery whom he had given over as an accused person to
the decision of the judges, nor suitable to his wisdom to arm the rashness
of an excited multitude with public authority.
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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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