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and as
he, being such a man, has encountered death on behalf of the republic while
employed on an embassy;—the senate decrees that a brazen pedestrian
statue of Servius Sulpicius be erected in the rostra in compliance with the
resolution of this order, and that his children and posterity shall have a place
round this statue of five feet in every direction, from which to behold the
games and gladiatorial combats, because he died in the cause of the republic;
and that this reason be inscribed on the pedestal of the statue; and that Caius
Pansa and Aulus Hirtius the consuls, one or both of them, if it seem good to
them, shall command the quaestors of the city to let out a contract for making
that pedestal and that statue, and erecting them in the rostra; and that
whatever price they contract for, they shall take care the amount is given and
paid to the contractor; and as in old times the senate has exerted its authority
with respect to the obsequies of, and honors paid to brave men, it now decrees
that he shall be carried to the tomb on the day of his funeral with the greatest
possible solemnity.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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