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Therefore, I applied myself to
the consideration of the law with these feelings, that I wished to find it calculated to
promote your interests, and such an one as a consul who was really, not in word only, devoted
to the people; might honestly and cheerfully advocate. And from the first clause of the
proposed law to the last, O Romans, I find nothing else thought of, nothing else intended,
nothing else aimed at, but to appoint ten kings of the treasury, of the revenues, of all the
provinces, of the whole of the republic, of the kingdoms allied with us, of the free nations
confederate with us—ten lords of the whole world, under the pretence and name of an
agrarian law.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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