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simulque mihi
respondeto tu, qui nos qui de communi salute1 consentimus
tyrannos vocas, fuerisne non tribunus plebis, sed intolerandus
ex caeno nescio qui atque ex tenebris tyrannus, qui primum2
eam rem publicam3 quae auspiciis inventis constituta est
isdem auspiciis sublatis conarere pervertere4, deinde sanctissimas
leges, Aeliam et Fufiam dico, quae in Gracchorum
ferocitate et in audacia Saturnini et in conluvione Drusi et
in contentione Sulpici et in cruore Cinnano, etiam inter
Sullana arma vixerunt, solus conculcaris ac pro nihilo
putaris, qui consulem morti obieceris, inclusum obsederis,
extrahere ex suis tectis conatus sis, qui in eo magistratu non
modo5 emerseris ex mendicitate, sed etiam divitiis nos iam
tuis terreas?
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