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I entreat you, O Caesar,
trace back your recollection of that time, bring that day back before your
eyes, remember the countenances of the men who were then gazing on you and
admiring you; was there any trepidation among them? any disorder? Was
anything done except in an orderly and quiet manner,—except as
became the establishment of a dignified and honourable man? What reason then
can be imagined why he should have intended to murder you after you had
bathed, and why he should not have chosen to do so after you had supped?
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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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