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He, therefore, turns out now, not only a defender of my
safety, having been previously to this one kindness of his always my enemy, but even the
seconder of my restoration to my dignity. And on that day when you met in the senate to the
number of four hundred and seventeen, and when all these magistrates were present one alone
dissented; he who thought that the conspirators could by his law be awakened from the shades
below. And on that day when in most weighty and copious language you delivered your decision,
that the republic had been preserved by my counsels, he as consul again took care that the
same things should be said by the chief men of the state in the assembly the next day; and he
then spoke on my behalf with the greatest eloquence, and brought the assembly into such a
state, all Italy standing by and listening, that no one would listen to the hateful and
detested voice of any of my hired or profligate enemies.
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