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"Conservatores Reipublicae." Pro Sextio. Mommsen. "Omnia sunt mea culpa commissa, qui ab his me amari putabam qui invidebant: eos non sequebar qui petebant." Ad Familiares, xiv. 1. "Nullum est meum peccatum nisi quod iis credidi a quibus nefas putabam esse me decipi.... Intimus proximus familiarissimus quisque aut sibi pertimuit aut mihi invidit." Ad Quintum Fratrem, i. 4.
Here, as always, Cicero was himself the centre round which all else revolved or ought to revolve. Ib. To Atticus, ii. 22. "Jam familiariter cum illo etiam cavillor ac jocor." To Atticus, ii. 1. Oratio in L. Pisonem. He seems to have even thought of suicide. To Atticus, iii. 9. Abridged from the Oratio pro P. Sextio. Oratio post reditum ad Quirites.
Curious subterranean influences seem to have been at work to save the Senate from the infamy of restoring Ptolemy. Perhaps Cicero was concerned in this. Ad Quintum Fratrem, ii. 3. "Tito Annio devota et constituta hostia esse videtur." De Haruspicum responsis. Ibid. "Otium cum dignitate." Abridged from the Oratio pro Sextio. "Me germanum asinum fuisse."
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