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Restore life then, Conscript Fathers, to him, from whom you have taken it away. The life of the dead is in the memory of the living.

— Cicero Philippicae – Philippics (-44)

Reddite igitur, patres conscripti, ei vitam, cui ademistis. Vita enim mortuorum in memoria est posita vivorum.

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Philippica IX, 10; translation of William Duncan

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