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Would that Lucius
Caesar were in health; that Servius. Sulpicius were alive. This cause would be
pleaded much better by three men, than it is now by me single-handed. What I am
going to say I say with grief, rather than by way of insult. We have been
deserted—we have, I say, been deserted, O conscript fathers, by our
chiefs. But, as I have often said before, all those who in a time of such danger
have proper and courageous sentiments shall be men of consular rank. The
ambassadors ought to have brought us back courage, they have brought us back
fear. Not, indeed, that they have caused me any fear: let them have as high an
opinion as they please of the man to whom they were sent; from whom they have
even brought back commands to us.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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