[82]
The conscript fathers decided
that he had no power to remit even to the bravest men any portion of their debts to
the state. And shall the senators decide that you have lawfully remitted any to a
most profligate woman? The man, concerning whom the Roman people had established a
law that his absolute will should be the law to the Roman people, still is found
fault with in this one particular, out of reverence for their ancient laws. Did you,
who were liable to almost every law, think that your lust and caprice was to be a
law to you? He is blamed for remitting a part of that money which he himself had
acquired. Shall you be pardoned who have remitted part of the revenue due to the
Roman people?
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.