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THE

HISTORY

O F

THE LIFE

OF

Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Hunc igitur fpe&temus. Hoc propofitum fit nobis exemplum.
Ille fe profeciffe fciat, cui CICERO valde placebit.
QUINTIL. Inftit. 1. x. 1.

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THE

HISTORY

OF

The LIFE of

M. TULLIUS CICERO.

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SECT. VI.

Cic. 50.

Coff.

ICERO'S return was, what he himfelf A. Urb. 696. truly calls it, the beginning of a new life to him [a]; which was to be governed P.CORNELIUS by new maxims, and a new kind of po- LENTULUS licy; yet fo as not to forfeit his old character. SPINTHER, He had been made to feel in what hands the QCACILIUS METELLUS weight of power lay, and what little dependence was to be placed on the help and fupport of his Aristocratical friends: Pompey had ferved him on this important occafion very fincerely, and with the concurrence alfo of Cæfar; fo as to make it a point

[a] Alterius vitæ quoddam initium ordimur. [ad Att. 4. 1.] In another place, he calls his reftoration to his former dignity, afyaviar, [ad Att. 6. 6.] or a new birth; a word borrowed probably from the Pythagorean school, Vol. II.

and applied afterwards by the
facred Writers to the renova-
tion of our nature by Bap-
tifm, as well as our reftora-
tion to life after death in the
general refurrection. Matt.
xix. 29. Tit. iii. 5.

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