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“And into whatever places besides they shall
think fit.” What is the reason, therefore, that they may not be able to settle a
colony on the Janiculan Hill; and to place a garrison of their own for their own protection
on your heads and necks? Will you not define how many colonies you choose to have led forth,
into what districts they are to be led, and of what number of colonists they are to consist?
Will you occupy a place which you consider suitable for the violence which perhaps you are
meditating? Will you complete the number of the colony, and will you strengthen it by
whatever garrison you may think advisable? Will you employ the revenues and all the resources
of the Roman people to coerce and oppress the Roman people itself, and to bring it under the
dominion and power of those intolerable decemvirs?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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