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But even private men have often
in this republic slain mischievous citizens.—Is it the laws which have been passed
about the punishment of Roman citizens? But in this city those who have rebelled against the
republic have never had the rights of citizens.—Do you fear odium with posterity?
You are showing fine gratitude to the Roman people which has raised you, a man known only by
your own actions, of no ancestral renown, through all the degrees of honour at so early an
age to the very highest office, if from fear of unpopularity or of any danger you neglect the
safety of your fellow-citizens.
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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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