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And Publius Sextius following the same line of conduct with equal virtue,
courage, and loyalty, thought that there were no enmities, no efforts of violence, no attacks,
no dangers even to his life, which it became him to shun, in defence of my safety, of your
authority, and of the constitution of the state. He, by his diligence, so recommended the
cause of the senate, thrown into disorder as it was by the harangues of wicked men, to the
multitude, that your name soon became the most popular of all names, your authority the object
of the greatest affection to all men. He defended me by every means that a tribune of the
people could employ; and supported me by every sort of kind attention, just as if he had been
my own brother; by his clients, and freedmen, and household, and resources, and letters, I was
so much supported, that he seemed to be not only my assistant under, but my partner in
calamity.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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