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In truth, if Titus Labienus thought himself
entitled to erect a gibbet in the Campus Martius for
Caius Rabirius, because he took up arms, what punishment ought to be devised for the man who
invited him to do so? And if a promise was given to Saturninus, as is constantly asserted by
you, it was not Caius Rabirius, but Caius Marius who gave it; and it was he too who violated
it, if indeed it was broken at all. But what promise, O Labienus, could be given except by a
resolution of the senate? Are you so complete a stranger in this city, are you so ignorant of
our constitution and of our customs, as to be ignorant of this? Are we to think that you are
living as a foreigner in a strange town, not bearing office in your own native
city?—
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