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But how shall I adequately complain of that stain, that disgrace,
that calamity of the whole senatorial order,—that this thing actually
happened in the city while the senatorial order furnished the judges, that the votes
of men on their oaths were marked by coloured tablets? I pledge myself that I will
urge all these things with diligence and with strictness.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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