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Though why should I invite you, by whom I know men have been already sent on to wait in
arms for you at the forum Aurelium; who I know has fixed and agreed with Manlius upon a
settled day; by whom I know that that silver eagle, which I trust will be ruinous and fatal
to you and to all your friends, and to which there was set up in your house a shrine as it
were of your crimes, has been already sent forward. Need I fear that you can long do without
that which you used to worship when going out to do murder, and from whose altars you have
often transferred your impious hand to the slaughter of citizens?
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