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Now I
am aedile elect, I consider what it is that I have received from the Roman people; I
consider that I am bound to celebrate holy games with the most solemn ceremonies to
Ceres, to Bacchus, and to Libera; that I
am bound to render Flora propitious to the Roman nation and people by the splendour
of her games; that it is my office to celebrate those most ancient games, which were
the first that were ever called Roman games, with the greatest dignity and with all
possible religious observance, in honour of Juno, Jupiter, and Minerva; that the charge of protecting all the sacred
buildings and the whole city is entrusted to me; that as a recompense for all that
labour and anxiety these honours are granted to me,—an honourable
precedence in delivering my opinion in the senate; a toga
praetexta; a curule chair; a right of transmitting my image to the
recollection of my posterity.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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