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But if he begins to agitate this one point, that there is one
description of extortion, common to all the senators, and now almost legalized in
the case of that order, by which immense sums are taken from the allies with the
greatest injustice; and that this cannot possibly be repressed by tribunals of
senators, but that, while the equestrian order furnished the senators, it never was
committed; who, then, can resist him? Who will be so desirous of gratifying you, who
will be such a partisan of your order, as to be able to oppose the transference of
the appointment of judges to that body?
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