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Mitto rem publicam, quae fuit semper Sullae
carissima; hosne amicos, talis viros, tam cupidos sui, per
quos res eius secundae quondam erant ornatae1, nunc sublevantur
adversae, crudelissime perire voluit, ut cum Lentulo
et Catilina et Cethego foedissimam vitam ac miserrimam
turpissima morte proposita degeret? non, inquam, cadit2
in hos mores, non in hunc pudorem, non in hanc vitam,
non in hunc hominem ista suspicio. nova quaedam illa
immanitas exorta est, incredibilis fuit ac singularis furor, ex
multis ab adulescentia conlectis perditorum hominum vitiis
repente ista tanta importunitas inauditi sceleris exarsit.
nolite,
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark. Albert Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1909. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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