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Read, I beg, O Publius Sestius, what the decurions1 of Capua decreed, in order that your
childish voice may be able to give some hint to our adversaries what it
appears likely to be able to do when it has acquired strength. [The decree
of the decurions is read.] I am not having a decree read which has been
dictated by any obligations of neighbourhood, or clientship, or relation of
public hospitality, or which was passed because of a canvass for it, or
because of the recommendation of some powerful man. I am reciting to you the
expression of a recollection of dangers which have been passed through, the
declaration of a most honourable service done to a people, a present return
of kindness, and a testimony of past events.
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1 It has been said before that decuriones was the name of the senators of a senate of a colony.
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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