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However, what was the object of
your addressing these entreaties to me, if the man for whom you were entreating
was already restored by a law of Caesar's? I suppose the truth was, that he
wished it to be done by me as a favour; in which matter there could not be any
favour done even by himself, if a law was already passed for the purpose.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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