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When lately the people of Reate, who were devoted to my interest, wished me to plead the
public cause of their state, concerning the streams of the Velinus and the subterranean
canals, before the present consuls, I do not think that I should either satisfy the claims of
the dignity of a most eminent prefecture, or do all that was required by good faith on my
part, if I did not get instruction as to the cause not only from the people themselves, but
from the place also and from the lake itself.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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