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Many men who had been admitted to the freedom of this city from the free
states, or the federate cities, were released from all apprehension on the
subject. No one was ever prosecuted on account of his rights as a citizen,
either because his own state had not ratified his admission, or because his
right to change his city was hindered by any treaty. I will venture also to
assert even this, that no one ever lost his action who was proved to have
been presented with the freedom of the city by any one of our generals.
Listen now to the decision of the Roman people given on many different
occasions, and approved of in the most important causes, in consequence both
of the facts of the case, and of precedent. Who is there that
does not know that a treaty was made with all the Latins in the consulship
of Spurius Cassius and Postumus Cominius?
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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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