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quid?
cum1 ista res nihil commovisset eius animum ad quem
veneratis, languidiore, credo, studio in causa fuistis; tantum
modo in praesidiis eratis, animi vero a causa abhorrebant:
an, ut fit in civilibus bellis2—nec in vobis magis3
quam in reliquis; omnes enim vincendi studio tenebamur.
pacis equidem semper auctor fui, sed tum sero; erat enim
amentis, cum aciem videres, pacem cogitare. omnes, inquam,
vincere volebamus; tu certe praecipue4, qui in eum
locum venisses5 ubi tibi6 esset pereundum, nisi vicisses. quamquam,
ut nunc se res habet, non dubito quin hanc salutem
anteponas illi victoriae.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit breviqve adnotatione critica instrvxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1918. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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