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You led a colony to Casilinum, a place
to which Caesar had previously led one. You did indeed consult me by letter
about the colony of Capua (but I
should have given you the same answer about Casilinum), whether you could legally lead a new colony to a
place where there was a colony already. I said that a new colony could not be
legally conducted to an existing colony, which had been established with a due
observance of the auspices, as long as it remained in a flourishing state; but I
wrote you word that new colonists might be enrolled among the old ones. But you,
elated and insolent, disregarding all the respect due to the auspices, led a
colony to Casilinum, whither one had
been previously led a few years before; in order to erect your standard there,
and to mark out the line of the new colony with a plow. And by that plow you
almost grazed the gate of Capua, so
as to diminish the territory of that flourishing colony.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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