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What then? By the immortal gods, if your
authority had had greater weight with the Roman people than the safety and real interests of
the Roman people itself, should we have been this day in possession of our present glory, and
of the empire of the whole earth? Did this, then, appear to you to be dominion, when it was a
common thing for the ambassadors, and praetors, and quaestors of the Roman people to be taken
prisoners? when we were cut off from all supplies, both public and private, from all our
provinces? when all the seas were so closed against us, that we could neither visit any
private estate of our own, nor any public domain beyond the sea?
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