This day, O conscript fathers, has brought with it an end to the long silence
in which I have of late indulged; not out of any fear, but partly from
sorrow, partly from modesty; and at the same time it has revived in me my
ancient habit of saying what my wishes and opinions are. For I cannot by any
means pass over in silence such great humanity, such unprecedented and
unheard-of clemency, such moderation in the exercise of supreme and
universal power, such incredible and almost godlike wisdom.
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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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