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What was that consecration of yours? “I had carried a
bill,” says he, “to make it lawful for me to
act.” What? had you not inserted this clause in it, that if there
was anything contrary to what was right in the bill, it should be invalid?
Will you then, O priests, by your decision, establish the point that it is
right that the home of every one of you, and your altars, and your hearths,
and your household gods, should be at the mercy of the caprice of the
tribunes? that it is right for any one, not only to throw down the house of
that man whom he may have chosen to attack with a body of excited men, and
may have driven away by violence,—which is an act of present
insanity, like the effect of a sudden terror,—but for him to bind
that man and property for all future time by the everlasting obligation of
religion?
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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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