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But they thought, that in the case of
Corinth and Carthage, even if they had taken away their senates and their magistrates, and
deprived the citizens of the lands, still men would not be wanting who would restore those
cities, and change the existing state of things in them before we could hear of it. But here,
under the very eyes of the senate and Roman people, they thought that nothing could take
place which might not be put down and extinguished before it had got to any head, or had
assumed any definite shape. Nor did that matter deceive those men, endued as they were with
divine wisdom and prudence. For after the consulship of Quintus Fulvius and Quintus Fabius,
by whom, when they were consuls, Capua was
defeated and taken, I will not say there has been nothing done, but nothing has been even
imagined in that city against this republic.
Many wars have been waged since that time with kings,—with Philip, and Antiochus,
and Perses, and Pseudophilippus, and Aristonicus, and Mithridates, and others. Many terrible
wars have existed beside-—the Carthaginian, the Corinthian, and the Numantian wars.
There have been also many domestic seditions, which I pass over. There have been wars with
our allies,—the Fregellan war, the Marsic war; in all which domestic and foreign
wars Capua has not only not been any hindrance to
us, but has afforded us most seasonable assistance, in providing the means of war, in
equipping our armies, and receiving them in their houses and homes. There were no men in the
city, who, by evil-disposed assemblies, by turbulent resolutions of the senate, or by unjust
exertions of authority, threw the republic into confusion, and sought pretexts for
revolution.
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