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Again, what king was ever so
preposterously impudent as to have all the profits and kindnesses, and
privileges of his kingdom on sale? But what immunity is there, what rights of
citizenship, what rewards that this man has not sold to individuals and to
cities and to entire provinces.? We have never heard of anything base or sordid
being imputed to Tarquinius. But at the house of this man gold was constantly
being weighed out in the spinning room, and money was being paid, and in one
single house every soul who had any interest in the business was selling the
whole empire of the Roman people. We have never heard of any executions of Roman
citizens by the orders of Tarquinius; but this man both at Suessa murdered the
man whom he had thrown into prison, and at Brundusium massacred about three hundred most gallant men and
most virtuous citizens.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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