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But now all mistake on any side shall be removed; now they shall show
openly that the very name of this republic, and the situation of this city and empire, that
even this very temple of the good and great Jupiter,
and this citadel of all nations, is odious to them. They wish settlers to be conducted to
Capua. They wish again to oppose that city to
this city. They think of removing all their riches thither of transferring thither the name
of the empire. That place which, because of the fertility of its lands and its abundance of
every sort of production, is said to be the parent of pride and cruelty—in that our
colonists, men selected as fit for every imaginable purpose, will be settled by the
decemvirs. No doubt, in that city, in which men, though born to the enjoyment of ancient
dignities and hereditary fortunes, were still unable to bear with moderation the luxuriance
of their fortunes, your satellites will be able to restrain their insolence and to behave
with modesty.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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