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Therefore I left my province
with the hope that the Roman people would come forward of its own accord to
pay me every sort of honour. But when one day by chance at that time, I, on
my road from the province, had arrived in the course of my journey at
Puteoli, at a time which
great numbers of the wealthiest men are accustomed to spend in that
district, I almost dropped with vexation when some one asked me what day I
had left Rome, and whether there
was any news there. And when I had replied that I was on my road from my
province, “Oh yes,” said he, “from Africa, I suppose.”
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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