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But since the republic has been now deprived of those men whom I have named, many
and illustrious as they were, let us come to the living, since two of the men of
consular rank are still left to us: Lucius Cotta, a man of the greatest genius
and the most consummate prudence, proposed a supplication in my honour for those
very actions with which you find fault, in the most complimentary language, and
those very men of consular rank whom I have named, and the whole senate, adopted
his proposal; an honour which has never been paid to any one else in the garb of
peace from the foundation of the city to my time.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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