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sed,
per deos immortalis, quae est ista societas, quae amicitia,
quod foedus, ut aut nostra civitas careat in suis periculis
Massiliensi propugnatore, careat Gaditano, careat Saguntino,
aut, si quis ex his1 populis sit exortus qui nostros duces
auxilio laboris2, commeatus3 periculo suo iuverit, qui cum
hoste nostro comminus in acie saepe pugnarit, qui se saepe
telis hostium, qui dimicationi capitis, qui morti obiecerit,
nulla condicione huius civitatis praemiis adfici possit?
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark. Albert Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1909. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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