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And as the Martial legion has encamped at
Alba, in a municipal town of the greatest loyalty and courage, and has devoted
itself to the support of the authority of the senate, and of the freedom of the
Roman people; and as the fourth legion, behaving with equal wisdom and with the
same virtue, under the command of Lucius Egnatuleius the quaestor, an
illustrious citizen, has defended and is still defending the authority of the
senate and the freedom of the Roman people; I give my vote, That it is and shall
be an object of anxious care to the senate to pay due honor and to show due
gratitude to them for their exceeding services to the republic: and that the
senate hereby orders that when Caius Pansa and Aulus Hirtius, the consuls elect,
have entered on their office, they take the earliest opportunity of consulting
this body on these matters, as shall seem to them expedient for the republic,
and worthy of their own integrity, and loyalty.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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