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And since mention has been made of your lieutenancy, I wish also to hear from
you, by what resolution of the senate you were appointed lieutenant? I
understand, from your gestures, what answer you are going to give. By your
own law, you say. Are not you, then, a most manifest parricide of your
country? Had not you had regard to the idea that the conscript fathers might
be wholly destroyed from out of the republic?—did you not even
leave this to the senate, which no one ever took from it—the
privilege, namely, of having all lieutenants appointed by authority of that
order? Did the great public council appear to you so contemptible? did the
senate appear so depressed? did the republic appear so miserable and
prostrate, that the senate was no longer able to appoint, in conformity with
the uniform precedent of our ancestors, the messengers of peace and war, and
managers, and interpreters, and authors of warlike determinations, and
ministers of the different sorts of provincial duty?
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