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What law was ever better, more advantageous, more frequently demanded in the best
ages of the republic, than the one which forbade the praetorian provinces to be
retained more than a year, and the consular provinces more than two? If this law
be abrogated, do you think that the acts of Caesar are maintained? What? are not
all the laws of Caesar respecting judicial proceedings abrogated by the law
which had been proposed concerning the third decury? And are you the defenders
of the acts of Caesar who overturn his laws? Unless, indeed, anything which, for
the purpose of recollecting it, he entered in a notebook, is to be counted among
his acts, and defended, however unjust or useless it may he; and that which he proposed to the people in the comitia
centuriata and carried, is not to be accounted one of the acts of
Caesar.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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