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You have before you the interpretation put upon the law and upon treaties by
the most consummate generals, by the wisest men and the most illustrious
citizens. I will add now that given by the judges who presided at this
investigation; I will add that of the whole Roman people; I will add the
most conscientious and sensible decision of the senate. When the judges were
stating openly and were explaining without any disguise what they intended
to decide with respect to the Papian law in the case of Marcus Crassus, when
the Mamertines claimed him back as a citizen of theirs, the Mamertines,
though they had commenced the cause under the sanction of the public
authority of their state abandoned it.
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