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And as Servius Sulpicius
Rufus, the son of Quintus of the Lemonian tribe, has deserved so well of the
republic as to be entitled to be complimented with all those distinctions; the
senate is of opinion, and thinks it for the advantage of the republic, that the
consule aedile should suspend the edict which usually prevails with respect to
funerals in the case of the funeral of Servius Sulpicius Rufus, the son of
Quintus of the Lemonian tribe; and that Caius Pansa, the consul, shall assign
him a place for a tomb in the Esquiline
plain, or in whatever place shall seem good to him, extending thirty feet in
every direction, where Servius Sulpicius may be buried; and that that shall be
his tomb, and that of his children and posterity, as having been a tomb most
deservedly given to them by the public authority.”
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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