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To other men the republic now seemed established, but it did not appear so at all
to me, as I was afraid of every sort of shipwreck, as long as you were at the
helm. Have I been deceived? or, was it possible for that man long to continue
unlike himself? While you were all looking on, documents were fixed up over the
whole Capitol, and exemptions were being sold, not merely to individuals, but to
entire states. The freedom of the city was also being given now not to single
persons only, but to whole provinces. Therefore, if these acts are to
stand,—and stand they can not if the republic stands
too,—then, O conscript fathers, you have lost whole provinces; and not
the revenues only, but the actual empire of the Roman people has been diminished
by a market this man held in his own house.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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