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Amid all this
commotion and agitation of minds and circumstances, when the voice and authority of the
consul has suddenly, from amid such great darkness, dawned on the Roman people; when it has
shown that nothing need be feared; that no regular army, no band of extempore ruffians, no
colony, no sale of the revenues, no new of command, no reign of decemvirs, no new Rome or opposition seat of empire, will be allowed to exist
while we are consuls; that the greatest tranquillity of peace and ease will be secured; then,
no doubt, we shall have much reason to ear that this beautiful agrarian law of yours will
appear popular.
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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