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O ye immortal gods, before I
should see this brave man, this man who deserves to be saved by you, O
judges, in this plight! “Say not so, say not so,” says
Milo. “Rather let him have suffered the penalty which he deserved,
and let us, if so it must be, suffer what we have not deserved.”
Shall this man, born for his country, die in any other land except his
country? or, as it may perchance turn out for his country? Will you preserve
the monuments of this man's courage, and yet allow no sepulchre containing
his body to exist in Italy? Will any one by his vote banish this man from
this city, when all other cities will gladly invite him to them if he is
driven out from among you?
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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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