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dum necesse erat resque ipsa cogebat,
unus omnia poterat1; qui postea quam
magistratus creavit legesque constituit, sua cuique procuratio
auctoritasque est restituta. quam si retinere volunt2 ei qui
reciperarunt in perpetuum poterunt obtinere; sin has caedis et
rapinas et hos tantos tamque profusos sumptus aut facient aut
approbabunt — nolo in eos gravius quicquam ne ominis3 quidem causa
dicere, unum hoc dico: nostri isti nobiles nisi vigilantes et boni et
fortes et misericordes erunt, eis hominibus in quibus haec erunt
ornamenta sua concedant necesse est.
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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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