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But as for his especially appointing you,
O Lucius Domitius, to preside over this investigation, in that he was
seeking nothing except justice, dignity, humanity and good faith. He passed
a law that it must be a man of consular dignity, because, I suppose, he
considered the duty of the men or the highest rank to resist both the
fickleness of the multitude and the rashness of the profligate; and of the
men of consular rank he selected you above all; for from your earliest youth
you had given the most striking proofs how you despised
the madness of the people.
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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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