[11]
Which, then, of us, O Labienus, is attached to the best interests of the people? you who
think that an executioner and chains ought to be put in operation against Roman citizens in
the very assembly of the people; who order a gallows to be planted and erected for the
execution of citizens in the Campus Martius, in the
comitia centuriata in a place hallowed by the auspices, or I,
who forbid the assembly to be polluted by the contagion of an executioner who think that the
forum of the Roman people ought to be purified from all such traces of nefarious wickedness
who urge that the assembly ought to be kept pure, the campus holy, the person of every Roman
citizen inviolate, and the rights of liberty unimpaired?
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
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.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.