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But when there was added the exhortation of Pansa, the
consul, delivered with more weight than the ears of Servius Sulpicius had
learned to resist, then at last he led me and his own son aside, and said that
he was hound to prefer your authority to his own life. And we, admiring his
virtue, did not dare to oppose his determination. His son was moved with
extraordinary piety and affection, and my own grief did not fall far short of
his agitation; but each of us was compelled to yield to his greatness of mind,
and to the dignity of his language, when he, indeed, amid the loud praises and
congratulations of you all, promised to do whatever you wished, and not to avoid
the danger which might be incurred by the adoption of the opinion of which he
himself had been the author. And we the next day escorted him early in the
morning as he hastened forth to execute your commands. And he, in truth, when
departing, spoke with me in such a manner that his language seemed like an omen
of his fate.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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