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quapropter, quoniam res in id discrimen
adducta est utrum ille poenas rei publicae luat an
nos serviamus, aliquando, per deos immortalis, patres conscripti,
patrium animum virtutemque capiamus, ut1 aut libertatem
propriam Romani et generis2 et nominis recuperemus
aut mortem servituti anteponamus. multa quae in libera
civitate ferenda non essent tulimus et perpessi sumus, alii
spe forsitan3 recuperandae libertatis, alii vivendi nimia cupiditate:
sed, si illa tulimus quae nos necessitas ferre coegit,
quae vis quaedam paene fatalis—quae tamen ipsa non
tulimus—etiamne huius impuri latronis feremus taeterrimum
crudelissimumque dominatum?
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