The familiar epistles of M.T. Cicero Englished and conferred with the: French Italian and other translations
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The familiar epistles of M.T. Cicero Englished and conferred with the: French Italian and other translations
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
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London :: Printed by Edward Griffin,
[1620]
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"The familiar epistles of M.T. Cicero Englished and conferred with the: French Italian and other translations." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18843.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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Cicero to Gallus. Ep. 27.
I Know not wherefore you complaine of me•• hauing no occasion: & though you h••d, yet should you not complaine. Y••u write, that when I was Consull, I made vse of you; and that Caesar will re∣store you, into your countrey. You
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speake it too confidently; but none be∣leeues you. You adde, that you deman∣ded the Tribuneship for my sake. I would you had beene alw••ies Tribune. For you should not haue beene to seeke of an Intercessor. Afterwards, you sting me, saying, th••t I dare not speake ••r••ely; as if I had not freely ••nswered you, when you imm••destly entre••ted me. This I write vnto you, to giu•• you to vnderstand, that in these qu••••kes of wit, in which you ••uppose your sel••e, to be some bodie; you deser••e no com∣mendation. But if you had mildly com∣plained of me; willingly, & as p••easingly I would haue iustified my selfe. I d••slike not what you haue done, but what you haue written. And I wonder much, that you should not esteeme me a free man, hauing preserued others libertie. But if the things were false, which you, as you say, laid open to me: what am I bound to you for it? if true•• you may be a suffi∣cient testimonie, how much the people of Rome, are bound vnto me. Fare∣well.
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