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Therefore in the Greek cities we see that
Rhodians and Lacedaemonians and men from all quarters are enrolled among the
citizens of Athens, and that the
same individuals are citizens of many cities at the same time. And I have
seen some ignorant men, citizens of ours, led by this mistake, sitting at
Athens among the judges and
members of the Areopagus, in a regular tribe and class of Athenian citizens,
being ignorant that it they acquired the rights of citizenship there they
lost their rights here, unless they recovered them by a subsequent return to
their rights here, and a renunciation of the others. But no one who had any
acquaintance with our laws or our customs, who wished to
retain his rights as a citizen of Rome, ever dedicated himself to another city.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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