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You made a great mistake, O Rullus, you and some of your
colleagues, when you hoped that, in being in opposition to a consul who studied the interests
of the people in reality, not by making a vain parade of so doing, you would be able to gain
popularity while overturning the republic. I challenge you; I invite you to the assembly; I
will accept the Roman people as an umpire between us
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