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I come now to the father. You, O
Quintus Catulus, chose the house of Marcus Fulvius, though he was the
father-in-law of your own brother, to be the monument of your victories, in
order that every recollection of that man who had embraced designs
destructive of the republic should be entirely removed from the eyes and
eradicated from the minds of men if, when you were building that portico,
any one had said to you that the time would come when that tribune of the
people, who had despised the authority of the senate and the opinion of all
virtuous men, should injure and overthrow your monument, while the consuls
were not looking on only, but even assisting in the work, and should join it
to the house of that citizen who as consul had defended the republic in
obedience to the authority of the senate; would you not have answered that
that could not possibly happen, unless the republic itself was previously
overthrown?
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