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Whoever wished to be made a senator, though he was a boy,
though he was unworthy, though he was of a class from which it was not lawful to
take senators; still, if he paid money enough to appear in his eyes a fit man to
gain his object, so it always was. Not only the laws of the Sicilians had no
influence in this matter, but even those which had been given to them by the senate
and people of Rome had none either. For
the laws which he makes who has the supreme command given to him by the Roman
people, and authority to make laws conferred on him by the senate, ought to be
considered the laws of the senate and people of Rome.
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