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and he said, too, in a very turbulent assembly of the
people, which, however, was pacified by his authority, that those slaves
were worthy not only of liberty, but even of every sort of reward possible,
who had defended the life of their master. For what reward can be
sufficiently great for such well-affected, such virtuous, such faithful
slaves, owing to whom it is that he is still alive? Although even that is
not putting it so strongly as to say, that it is owing to those very men
that he did not glut the eyes and mind of his most cruel enemy with his
blood and wounds. And if he had not emancipated them, then those preservers
of their master, those avengers of wickedness, those defenders of their
master from death, must have even been surrendered to torture. But in all
these misfortunes the most comfortable reflection which Milo has is, that,
even if anything should happen to himself, still he has given them the
reward which they deserved.
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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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