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I wish you also to answer me, as, while you were tribune of the people, the
Aelian and Fufian laws still existed in the republic; laws which have
repeatedly checked and repressed the frenzy of the tribunes; in
contravention of which no one has ever dared to act except you; (though
those same laws the year after, when two men were sitting in the temple,
whom I will not call consuls, but betrayers of this state, and pestilences,
were destroyed at the same time with the auspices, and the power of intercession, and all public law:)
Did you ever hesitate to transact business with the people, and to convene
the assembly in defiance of these laws? Have you ever heard of any one out
of all the tribunes of the people that ever existed, however seditious they
may have been, being so audacious as to summon an assembly in defiance of
the Aelian and Fufian laws?
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