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| | Cicero. Plutarch. 1909-14. Plutarchs Lives. The Harvard Classics |
 | | Ciceros friends encouraged him, saying he was not likely ever to have a fairer and more honorable introduction to public life; he therefore undertook the defence, carried the cause, and got much renown for it. |
 | | Cicero, accordingly, accepting the conditions, came forward to make his withdrawal; and silence being made, he recited his oath, not in the usual, but in a new and peculiar form, namely, that he had saved his country, and preserved the empire; the truth of which oath all the people confirmed with theirs. |
 | | Cicero had not been long at Rome, when, taking the opportunity of Clodius; absence, he went, with a great company, to the capitol, and there tore and defaced the tribunician tables, in which were recorded the acts done in the time of Clodius. |
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