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Therefore, when at the very
beginning, I, being the consul elect, was informed that the tribunes elect of the people were
drawing up an agrarian law, I wished to ascertain what their plans were. In truth, I thought
that, since we were both to act as magistrates in the same year, it was right that there
should be some union between us, for the purpose of governing the republic wisely and
successfully.
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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