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What more? Is not this
a substitution of a new law for the laws of Caesar, which enact that every man
who has been convicted of violence, and also every man who has been convicted of
treason, shall be interdicted from fire and water? And, when those men have a
right of appeal given them, are not the acts of Caesar rescinded? And those
acts, O conscript fathers, I, who never approved of them, have still thought it
advisable to maintain for the sake of concord; so that I not only did not think
that the laws which Caesar had passed ill his lifetime ought to be repealed, but
I did not approve of meddling with those even which since the death of Caesar
you have seen produced and published.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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