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Therefore, yesterday I summoned Lucius Flaccus and C. Pomtinus, the praetors, brave men and
well-affected to the republic. I explained to them the whole matter, and showed them what I
wished to have done. But they, full of noble and worthy sentiments towards the republic,
without hesitation, and without any delay, undertook the business, and when it was evening,
went secretly to the Mulvian bridge, and there so distributed themselves in the nearest
villas, that the Tiber and the bridge was between them. And they took to the same place,
without any one having the least suspicion of it, many brave men, and I had sent many picked
young men of the prefecture of Reate, whose assistance I constantly employ in the protection
of the republic, armed with swords.
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