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Now that I have summed up the whole cause the affair itself and the magnitude of the
danger, O Caius Aquillius, seem to make it necessary for Publius Quinctius to solicit
and entreat you and your colleagues, by his old age and his desolate condition, merely
to follow the dictates or your own nature and goodness; so that as the truth is on his
side, his necessitous state may move you to pity rather than the influence of the other
party to cruelty.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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