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And if you also undertake that cause; if you offer
your aid in that business; if you sit there in order that the children of those men
whose goods have been sold may be brought before you; beware, in God's name, O judges,
lest a new and much more cruel proscription shall seem to have been commenced by you.
Though the former one was directed against those who could take arms, yet the Senate
would not adopt it lest anything should appear to be done by the public authority more
severe than had been established by the usages of our ancestors. And unless you by your
sentence reject and spurn from yourselves this one which concerns their children and the
cradles of their infant babes, consider, in God's name, O judges, to what a state you
think the republic will arrive.
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