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Do you not, moreover, see how grievous, how
formidable, and how pregnant with extortion that invasion of the decemvirs and of the
multitude that will follow in their train will be to all the provinces, and kingdoms, and
free nations? In the case of those men on whom you have conferred lieutenancies for the sake
of entering on inheritances, though they went as private men, on private business, invested
with no excessive power and no supreme authority, you have still heard how burdensome their
arrival has proved to your allies.
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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