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“But the
decision of the senate was not free, because of the fear in which they
were.” If you make out that they who left it were in fear, at
least grant that they who remained were not alarmed. But if no free decision
could be come to without the presence of those men who were absent at that
time, I say that the motion about framing a resolution of the senate began
to be made when every one was present; it was carried by acclamation by the
entire senate.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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