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The next morning men come early to the public assembly; they ask what is best to be
done; every one delivered his own opinions to the people according as each
individual had the most weight. No one was found whose opinion and speech was not to
this purpose:—“That it need not be feared, if the Lampsacenes
had avenged that man's atrocious wickedness by force and by the sword, that the
senate and Roman people would have thought they ought to chastise their city. And if
the lieutenants of the Roman people were to establish this law with respect to the
allies, and to foreign nations,—that they were not to be allowed to
preserve the chastity of their children unpolluted by their lusts, it was better to
endure anything rather than to live in a state of such violence and
bitterness.”
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