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Take care now, O priests, what decision you give in this cause of mine,
concerning the fortunes of all the citizens. Do you think that the house of
every single citizen can be consecrated by the word of a priest, if he takes
hold of a door-post and says something or other? But those dedications, and
those religious ceremonies respecting temples and shrines, were instituted
by our ancestors to do honour to the immortal gods, without inflicting any
misfortune on their fellow-citizens. A tribune of the people has been found,
who, assisted by the forces of the consuls, has rushed with all the violence
of insanity on that citizen, whom, after he had been beaten down, the
republic itself raised up again with its own hands.
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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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