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Wherefore, that you may not wonder at my
having paid you this compliment of putting questions to you, whom no one
thinks worthy of being spoken to or visited, whom no one thinks deserving of
a vote, or of the rights of a citizen, or even of the light of life; know
that no motive would have induced me to do so, except that of repressing
that ferocity of yours, and crushing your audacity, and checking your
loquacity by entangling it in the few questions I should put to you. In
truth, you ought, O Vatinius, even if you had become suspected by Publius
Sestius undeservedly, still to pardon me, if, on the occasion of such great
danger to a man who has done me such great services, I had yielded to the
consideration of what his necessities required, and what his inclination
deserved of me.
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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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