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The law was proposed only a few days; it was
never begun to be put in train to be carried; it was laid on the table in the senate. On the
first of January, when we had summoned the senate to meet in the Capitol, nothing took
precedence of it; and Quintus Metellus the praetor said, that what he was saying was by the
command of Sulla; that Sulla did not wish such a motion to be brought forward
respecting his case. From that time forward Caecilius applied himself to many measures for the
advantage of the republic; he declared that he by his intercession would stop the agrarian
law, which was in every part of it denounced and defeated by me. He resisted infamous attempts
at corruption; he never threw any obstacles in the way of the authority of the senate. He
behaved himself in his tribuneship in such a manner, that, laying aside all regard for his own
domestic concerns, he thought of nothing for the future but the welfare of the republic.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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