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Wherefore, you may desist from that
language which you have been using, namely, that the dispositions of the
priests were changed after my delivering the opinion which I did about the
corn. As if they had any different opinion from what I myself had about
Cnaeus Pompeius, or as if they were ignorant what I ought to do either with
regard to the expectation of the Roman people, or to the services which I
have received from Cnaeus Pompeius, or to my own circumstances and
condition; or as if even, if my sentiments had perchance been offensive to
any one of the priests, though I know for a certainty that the contrary was
the case, any priest was on that account going to decide about religion, or
any citizen about the republic, in any other manner than the laws respecting
religious ceremonies compelled the one, or the interests and safety of the
republic compelled the other.
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