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We may complain then, he says. Still Aebutius is not touched by this interdict. How so?
Because violence was not offered to Caecina. Can it be said in this cause, where there were
arms, where there was a multitude of men collected, where there were men carefully equipped
and placed in appointed places with swords, where there were threats, dangers, and terrors of
death, that there was no violence?
“No one,” says he, “was slain, or even wounded.”
What are you saying? When we are speaking of a dispute about a right of possession, and about
an action at law between private individuals, will you say that no violence was done, if
actual murder and slaughter did not take place? I say that mighty armies have often been put
to flight and routed by the mere terror and charge of the enemy, not only without the death of
any one, but even without one single person being wounded
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