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pro di immortales! qui magis
nobiscum loqui possetis, si essetis versareminique nobiscum?
ludos esse pollutos significastis ac plane dicitis. quid magis
inquinatum, deformatum, perversum, conturbatum dici potest
quam omne servitium, permissu magistratus liberatum1, in
alteram scaenam inmissum, alteri praepositum, ut alter consessus
potestati servorum obiceretur, alter servorum totus
esset? si examen apium ludis in scaenam caveamve venisset2,
haruspices acciendos ex Etruria putaremus: videmus universi
repente examina tanta servorum inmissa in populum
Romanum saeptum atque inclusum, et non commovemur?
atque in apium fortasse examine nos ex Etruscorum scriptis
haruspices ut a servitio caveremus monerent.
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