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si vero coloniarum
et municipiorum sine ulla dubitatione hostis est, quid
tandem huius censetis urbis quam ille ad explendas1 egestates
latrocini sui concupivit, quam iam peritus metator et
callidus decempeda sua Saxa diviserat? recordamini, per
deos immortalis! patres conscripti, quid hoc biduo timuerimus
a domesticis hostibus2 rumoribus improbissimis dissipatis.
quis liberos, quis coniugem aspicere poterat sine
fletu? quis domum, quis tecta, quis larem familiarem? aut
foedissimam mortem omnes aut miserabilem fugam cogitabant.
haec a quibus timebantur, eos hostis appellare dubitamus?
gravius si quis attulerit nomen, libenter adsentiar:
hoc volgari contentus vix sum, leviore non utar.
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