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For what do you think will remain to you unimpaired in the whole republic,
or in your liberty, or in your dignity, when Rullus, and those whom you are much more afraid
of than you are of Rullus, with his whole band of needy and unprincipled men, with all his
forces, with all his silver and gold, shall have occupied Capua and the cities around Capua?
These things, O conscript fathers, I will resist eagerly and vigorously; and I will not
permit men, while I am consul, to bring forth those plans against the republic which they
have long been meditating.
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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