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What is
become of the law that such bills should be published on three market-days? What
is become of the penalty appointed by the recent Junian and Licinian law? Can
these laws be ratified without the destruction of all other laws? Has any one
had a right of entering the forum? Moreover what thunder and what a storm that
was! so that, even if the consideration of the auspices had no weight with
Marcus Antonius, it would seem strange that he could endure and bear such
exceeding violence of tempest, and rain and whirlwind. When therefore he, as
augur, says that he carried a law while Jupiter was not only thundering, but
almost uttering an express prohibition of it by his clamor from heaven, will he
hesitate to confess that it was carried in violation of the auspices?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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