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O how vain have at all times been my too true predictions
of the future! I told those deliverers of ours in the Capitol, when they wished
me to go to you to exhort you to defend the republic, that as long as you were
in fear you would promise every thing, but that as soon as you had emancipated
yourself from alarm you would be yourself again. Therefore, while the rest of
the men of consular rank were going backward and forward to you, I adhered to my
opinion, nor did I see you at all that day, or the next; nor did I think it
possible for an alliance between virtuous citizens and a most unprincipled enemy
to be made, so as to last, by any treaty or engagement whatever. The third day I
came into the temple of Tellus, even then very much against my will, as armed
men were blockading all the approaches.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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