Cicero Pro Caelio 79

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quod cum huius vobis adulescentiam proposueritis, constituitote ante oculos etiam huius miseri senectutem qui hoc unico filio nititur, in huius spe requiescit, huius unius casum pertimescit;
And when you have given due consideration to the fact of his youth, then place also before your eyes, I entreat you, the old age of his miserable father whom you see before you; whose whole dependence is on this his only son; who reposes on the hopes
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which he has formed of him; who fears nothing but the disasters which may befall him.
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quem vos supplicem vestrae misericordiae, servum potestatis,
Support, I pray you, that old man, now a suppliant for your mercy, the slave of your power,
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abiectum non tam ad pedes quam ad mores sensusque vestros, vel recordatione parentum vestrorum vel liberorum iucunditate sustentate, ut in alterius dolore vel pietati vel indulgentiae vestrae serviatis.
who while he throws himself at your feet, so appeals more strongly still to your virtuous habits, support him, moved either by the recollection of your own parents, or by the affection with which you regard your own children, so as, while relieving
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the misery of another, to yield to your own pious or indulgent dispositions.
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nolite, iudices, aut hunc iam natura ipsa occidentem velle maturius exstingui volnere vestro quam suo fato, aut hunc nunc primum florescentem firmata iam stirpe virtutis tamquam turbine aliquo aut subita tempestate pervertere.
Do not, O judges, cause this old man, who is already, by the silent progress of nature, declining and hastening to his end, to fail prematurely through a wound inflicted by you, before the day which his natural destiny has appointed for him.
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which he has formed of him; who fears nothing but the disasters which may befall him.

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abiectum non tam ad pedes quam ad mores sensusque vestros, vel recordatione parentum vestrorum vel liberorum iucunditate sustentate, ut in alterius dolore vel pietati vel indulgentiae vestrae serviatis.

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