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According to Robert Harris*, after Cicero fled Rome as Clodius was moving against him, he might have turned back and returned to the city; he could have fought the tribune on the law that would exile him, and, because Ceasar was leaving Rome for the Gaul expedition, Cicero had a good chance of winning this fight.

First, is this a fair analysis, and was returning to Rome shortly after fleeing really a possible course of action for Cicero to take? If it indeed was, what would have been the results?

*I happened to read the first chapter of the third novel in his Cicero trilogy today.
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