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And have you ruined
the public, with the man who drew this law for your adviser, and counselor,
and minister, a fellow more impure, not only than any biped, but even than
any quadruped? And you were not so foolish or so mad as to be ignorant that
this man who violated the laws was Clodius; but that there were other men
who were accustomed to frame laws: but you had not the least power over any
one of them, or over any one else who had any character to lose; nor could
you employ the same framers of laws, or the same architect for your works,
as the others; nor could you obtain the aid of any priest you chose. Lastly,
you were not able to discover, not even when you were dividing your plunder,
any purchaser, or any one to share your plunder with you, out of your own
band of gladiators, nor any one to support that proscription of yours with
his vote except some thief or assassin.
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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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