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Will there be peace with the municipal towns, whose great
zeal is shown by the decrees which they pass, by the soldiers whom they furnish,
by the sums which they promise, so that in each town there is such a spirit as
leaves no one room to wish for a senate of the Roman people? The men of Firmium
deserve to be praised by a resolution of our order, who set the first example of
promising money; we ought to return a complimentary answer to the Marrucini, who
have passed a vote that all who evade military service are to be branded with
infamy. These measures are adopted all over Italy. There is great peace between Antonius and these men, and
between them and him! What greater discord can there possibly be? And in discord
civil peace can not by any possibility exist.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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