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But, even if I were to allow that everything had been done with the
regularities of expression, according to ancient and established usages, I
should still defend myself by the common law of the republic. When, after
the departure of that citizen, to whose single exertions the senate and all
good men had so often decided that the safety of the state was owing, you,
with the aid of two most wicked consuls, were keeping down the republic
which was groaning under the oppression of your most shameful robberies;
when you had dedicated, with the countenance of some obscure priest, the
house of that man who was unwilling that the country which had been
preserved by him should perish on any pretence connected with him; could the
republic when it had recovered itself endure that?
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