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Certainly not. We have seen a tribune of the people do
the same thing to Cnaeus Lentulus the censor. Did he then at all bind the
property of Lentulus to any peculiar sanctity?
But why should I speak of other men? You yourself; I say, with your head
veiled, having summoned an assembly, having placed a brazier on the spot,
consecrated the property of your dear friend Gabinius, to whom you had given
all the kingdoms of the Syrians, and Arabians, and Persians. But if nothing
was really effected at that time, why should my property be affected by the
same measures? if, on the other hand, that consecration was valid, why did
that abyss of a man, who had swallowed up with you all the blood of the
republic, raise a villa as high as the heavens on my Tusculan estate, out of
the funds of the public treasury? And why have I not been allowed to look
upon the ruins of my property,—I, who am the only person who
prevented the whole city from being in a similar condition?
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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