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Just revolve these things in your
minds. . . . . Foreign nations can scarcely endure our lieutenants, though they are men of
but slight authority, when they go on free lieutenancies, on account of some private
business. For the name of power is a hard one to bear, and is dreaded even in ever so
inconsiderable a person; because, when they have once left Rome they conduct their proceedings not in their own name, but in yours. What
do you suppose will happen, when those decemvirs wander all over the world with their supreme
power, and their faces, and their chosen band of surveyors? What
do you suppose will be the feelings, what the alarm, what the actual danger of those unhappy
nations?
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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