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And so the city of Gades obtained what it was well entitled
to obtain by its services done to our republic, by the
testimony borne in its favour by our commanders by the antiquity of its
alliance with us, by the authority of Quintus Catulus, a most illustrious
man by the formal decision of the senate, and by a regular treaty; but it
has not received any additional sanction from any public religious
ceremonies of ratification. For the people has in no respect whatever bound
itself, nor is the cause of the men of Gades any the worse for that; for it is upheld by many and
those the very wealthiest of circumstances. But however there is at present
no room for that discussion; for nothing can be so ratified as to be sacred
unless it be something that has been adopted by the burgesses or by the
common people.
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