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The next in rank to
this dignified body is the equestrian order. All the companies of public
contractors passed most favourable and honourable decrees respecting my
consulship and my actions. The scriveners, who are much connected with us in
matters relating to public registers and monuments, took good care that
their sentiments and resolutions respecting my services to the republic
should not be left in doubt. There is no corporation in all this city, no
body of men either from the higher or lower parts of the city,1 (since
our ancestors thought fit that the common people of the city should also
have places of meeting and some sort of deliberative assemblies,) which has
not passed most honourable resolutions, not merely respecting my safety, but
relating also to my dignity.
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1 The Latin is pagani aut montani, and whether it refers to portions of the city, or to people in the suburban districts, Graevius professes himself quite ignorant, saying that this is the only mention of such classes. Riddle translates it (v. paganus） “countrymen and mountaineers.” Yet the next words, plebei urbanae, seem to show that they refer to some division of the citizens of the city itself.
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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