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Who then are the veterans whom we are to be fearful of offending? Those who are
desirous to deliver Decimus Brutus from siege? for how can those men, to whom
the safety of Brutus is dear, hate the name of Cassius? Or those men who abstain
from taking arms on either side? I have no fear of any of those men who delight
in tranquillity becoming a mischievous citizen. But as for the third class, whom
I call not veteran soldiers, but infamous enemies, I wish to inflict on them the
most bitter pain. Although, O conscript fathers, how long are we to deliver our
opinions as it may please the veterans? why are we to yield so much to their
haughtiness? why are we to make their arrogance of such importance as to choose
our generals with reference to their pleasure?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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