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Cicero ’s return was, what he himfelf truly calls it, a. UrL 696,the beginning of a new life to him 1 ; which was Cic. so.to be governed by new maxims, and a new kind Coff.of policy; yet fo as not to forfeit his old char- p * CoR NEi.r«ader. He had been made to feel in what hands us Lentu '’the weight of power lay, and what little depend- THERence was to be placed on the help and fupport q. Cblciluof his Ariftocratical friends: Pompey had ferved us Metel.him on this important occafionvery fincerely, and vs Nepqs.with the concurrence alfo of Caefar; fo as tomake it a point of gratitude, as well as prudence,to be more obfervant of them than he had hith-erto been: the Senate, on the other hand, withthe Magiftrates and the honeft of all ranks, werezealous in his caufe; and the Conful Lentulusabove all feemed to make it the foie end and
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