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Nor does he say these things to me. O judges, weeping, as I now repeat them;
but with the same unmoved countenance that you behold. For he says, he never
did all the things which he had done for citizens who are ungrateful;
ungrateful, he says, they are not. That they are timid and thinking too much
of every danger, he does not deny. He says, that he treated the common
people, and that multitude of the lower class which, while they had Publius
Clodius for their leader, threatened the safety of all of you in such a way,
in order to render all your lives more secure; that he not only subdued it
by his virtue, but won it over at the expense of three estates which he
inherited. Nor has he any apprehension that while he was conciliating the
common people by his liberality, he was not also securing your attachment by
his singular services to the republic. He says, that the good-will of the
senate towards him has been repeatedly experienced by him in the times that
have lately gone by; and that he shall carry with him, and ever retain in
his recollection, the way in which you and all your order flocked to meet
him, the zeal you showed in his behalf, and the kindness of your language to
him, whatever may be the destiny which fortune allots to him.
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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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