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difficile est dictu, Quirites,
quanto in odio simus apud exteras nationes propter eorum
quos ad eas per hos annos cum imperio misimus libidines
et iniurias1. quod enim fanum2 putatis in illis terris nostris
magistratibus religiosum, quam civitatem sanctam, quam
domum3 satis clausam ac munitam fuisse? Vrbes iam
locupletes et copiosae requiruntur quibus causa belli propter
diripiendi facultatem4 inferatur.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1908. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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