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This union of ours, this unanimity and concert in
managing the affairs of the republic successfully, this most delightful
agreement in life and all its duties, certain men, by false reports of
conversations and false accusations, broke, interrupted; going to him, and
warning him to be afraid of me, to guard against me, and at the same time
telling me that he was hostile to me above all men: so that I had net
sufficient confidence to ask of him what it was desirable for me to ask, nor
did he, having been made sore by the jealousies and wickedness of certain
individuals, promise me with sufficient freedom what my necessities
required.
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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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