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... quaedam quasi semina, neque reliquarum
virtutum nec ipsius rei publicae reperiatur ulla institutio. Hi coetus igitur hac, de qua exposui, causa
instituti sedem primum certo loco domiciliorum causa
constituerunt; quam cum locis manuque saepsissent,
eius modi coniunctionem tectorum oppidum vel urbem
appellaverunt delubris distinctam spatiisque communibus. Omnis ergo populus, qui est talis coetus multitudinis, qualem exposui, omnis civitas, quae
est constitutio populi, omnis res publica, quae, ut dixi,
populi res est, consilio quodam regenda est, ut diuturna sit. Id autem consilium primum semper ad eam
causam referendum est, quae causa genuit civitatem.
M. Tullius Cicero. Librorum de Re Publica Sex. C. F. W. Mueller. Leipzig. Teubner. 1889. Scanned printed text.
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