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hunc
vero si secuti erunt sui comites, si ex urbe exierint desperatorum
hominum flagitiosi greges, o nos beatos, o rem
publicam fortunatum, o praeclaram laudem consulatus mei!
non enim iam sunt mediocres hominum libidines, non
humanae et1 tolerandae audaciae; nihil cogitant nisi caedem,
nisi incendia, nisi rapinas. patrimonia sua profuderunt,
fortunas suas obligaverunt2; res eos iam pridem3, fides nuper
deficere coepit: eadem tamen illa quae erat in abundantia
libido permanet4. quod si in vino et alea comissationes
solum et scorta quaererent, essent illi quidem desperandi,
sed tamen essent ferendi: hoc vero quis ferre possit, inertis
homines fortissimis viris insidiari, stultissimos prudentissimis,
ebrios5 sobriis, dormientis vigilantibus? qui mihi6
accubantes in conviviis, complexi mulieres impudicas, vino
languidi, conferti cibo, sertis redimiti, unguentis obliti,
debilitati stupris eructant sermonibus suis caedem bonorum
atque urbis incendia.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1908. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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