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Therefore a decree of their senate is, immediately passed, that the
ten chief men 1 should go
to Lucius Sulla, and explain to him what a man Sextus Roscius had been; should complain
of the wickedness and outrages of those fellows, should entreat him to see to the
preservation both of the character of the dead man, and of the fortunes of his innocent
son, And observe, I entreat you, this decree— [here the decree is read]
—The deputies come to the camp. It is now seen, O judges, as I said before,
that these crimes and atrocities were committed without the knowledge of Lucius Sulla.
For immediately Chrysogonus himself comes to them, and sends some men of noble birth to
them too, to beg them not to go to Sulla, and to promise them that Chrysogonus, will do
everything which they wish.
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1 The decuriones were the senators in a colony. Only a decuric could be a magistrate, and their body possessed whatever power had once belonged to the community. Smith, Dict. Ant. v. Colonia.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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