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That was the real beauty and splendour of the Roman people, which you beheld
in the Campus Martius at that time,
when even you were allowed to speak in opposition to the authority and
wishes of the senate and of all Italy. That is the people—that, I say, is the
people which is the lord of kings, the conqueror and commander-in-chief of
all nations, which you, O wicked man, beheld in that most illustrious day
when all the chief men of the city, when all men of all ranks and ages
considered themselves as giving their votes, not about the safety of a
citizen, but about that of the state; when men arrive into the Campus, the
municipal towns having been all emptied, not the taverns.
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