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When Publius Clodius had determined to
distress the republic by all sorts of wickedness during his praetorship, and
saw that the comitia were so delayed the year
before, that he would not be able to continue his praetorship many months,
as he had no regard to the degree of honour, as others have, but both wished
to avoid having Lucius Paullus, a citizen of singular virtue, for his
colleague, and also to have an entire year to mangle the republic; on a
sudden he abandoned his own year, and transferred himself to the next year,
not from any religious scruple, but that he might have, as he said himself,
a full and entire year to act as praetor, that is, to overthrow the
republic.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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