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But how did those
men who had such respect for Clodius's laws observe the rest of the laws?
The senate indeed, whose authority is of the very greatest weight on all
questions affecting the power of the laws, as often as it has been consulted
in my case, has decided that that was no law at all. And you, O Lentulus,
showed that you were aware of its not being one in that law which you
carried concerning me. For that law was not framed in such terms as that I
might be allowed to come to Rome,
but that I should come to Rome.
For you did not wish to propose to make that lawful for me to do, which was
lawful already; but you wished me to be in the republic, appearing to have
been sent for by the command of the Roman people, rather than to have been
restored for the purpose of aiding in the management of the republic.
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