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However, perhaps it is owing to shame that there is no
mention of all these things in the law.
What is much more to be guarded against, what is a much more real object of fear, is, that
great power is permitted to the boldness of these decemvirs of tampering with the public
documents, and forging decrees of the Senate, which have never been made; as a great many of
those men who have been consuls of late years are dead. Unless, perhaps, I may be told, that
it is not reasonable for you to entertain any suspicions of their audacity, for whose
cupidity the whole world appears too narrow.
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