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But if it were a contest between parties,
the name of which is utterly extinct, then would Antonius and Ventidius be the
proper persons to uphold the party of Caesar, rather than in the first place,
Caesar, a young man full of the greatest piety and the most affectionate
recollection of his parent? and next to him Pansa and Hirtius, who held (if I
may use such an expression) the two horns of Caesar, at the time when that
deserved to be called a party. But what parties are these, when the one proposes
to itself to uphold the authority of the senate, the liberty of the Roman
people, and the safety of the republic, while the other fixes its eyes on the
slaughter of all good men, and on the partition of the city and of Italy!
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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