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quam quidem rationem vos, iudices,
diligenter pro vestra sapientia et humanitate1 cogitare et
penitus perspicere debetis, quid mali, quantum periculi uni
cuique nostrum2 inferre possit vis tribunicia, conflata praesertim
invidia et contionibus seditiose concitatis. optimis
hercule temporibus, tum cum homines se non iactatione
populari sed dignitate atque innocentia tuebantur, tamen
nec P. Popilius3 neque4 Q. Metellus, clarissimi viri atque
amplissimi5, vim tribuniciam sustinere potuerunt, nedum his
temporibus, his moribus, his magistratibus sine vestra sapientia
ac sine iudiciorum remediis salvi esse possimus.
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