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But on this I was inflamed with such eagerness to return, that no oars or winds
could be fast enough for me; not that I thought that I should not arrive in
time, but lest I should be later than I wished in congratulating the republic;
and I quickly arrived at Velia, where
I saw Brutus; how grieved I was, I cannot express. For it seemed to be a
discreditable thing for me myself, that I should venture to return into that
city from which Brutus was departing, and that I should be willing to live
safely in a place where he could not. But he himself was not agitated in the
same manner that I was; for, being elevated with the consciousness of his great
and glorious exploit, he had no complaints to make of what had befallen him,
though he lamented your fate exceedingly.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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