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The man who has done all these things is now brought before a court
of law. You who were not present at the transactions are, with the Roman people, taking
cognisance of the cause; those men are our adversaries who were compelled to leave their lands
by the command of Cnaeus Pompeius; those men are our adversaries who having escaped from the
war, and the slaughter which was made of them, for the first time dare to stand against Marcus
Fonteius, now that he is unarmed. What of the colonists of Narbo? what do they wish? what do they think? They wish this man's safety to be
ensured by you, they think that theirs has been ensured by him. What of the state of the
Massilians? They distinguished him while he was among them by the greatest honours which they
had to bestow; and now, though absent from this place, they pray and entreat you that their
blameless character, their panegyric, and their authority may appear to have some weight with
you in forming your opinions.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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