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Ergo, inquit Scipio, cum ille Romuli senatus, qui constabat ex optimatibus, quibus ipse rex
tantum tribuisset, ut eos patres vellet nominari patriciosque eorum liberos, temptaret post Romuli excessum, ut ipse regeret sine rege rem publicam, populus id non tulit desiderioque Romuli postea regem
flagitare non destitit; cum prudenter illi principes
novam et inauditam ceteris gentibus interregni ineundi rationem excogitaverunt, ut, quoad certus rex declaratus esset, nec sine rege civitas nec
diuturno rege esset uno nec committeretur, ut quisquam inveterata potestate aut ad deponendum imperium tardior esset aut ad optinendum munitior.
M. Tullius Cicero. Librorum de Re Publica Sex. C. F. W. Mueller. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. Scanned printed text.
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