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Caesar too, I suppose, made the law about the exiles which you have posted up. I
do not wish to press upon any one in misfortune; I only complain, in the first
place, that the return of those men has had discredit thrown upon it, whose
cause Caesar judged to be different from that of the rest; and in the second
place, I do not know why you do not mete out the same measure to all. For there
can not be more than three or four left. Why do not they who are in similar
misfortune enjoy a similar degree of your mercy? Why do you treat them as you
treated your uncle? about whom you refused to pass a law when you were passing
one about all the rest; and whom at the same time you encouraged to stand for
the censorship, and instigated him to a canvass, which excited the ridicule and
the complaint of every one.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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