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In this spirit did the senate act. What
next? What are you, O Roman knights, what are you about to do, I pray?
Glaucia, a profligate but still a shrewd man, was in the habit of warning
the people when any law was being read to attend to the first line of it. If
the first word was “dictator, consul, praetor, master of the
horse,” then not to trouble themselves about it; they might know
that it was no concern of theirs. But if it began “Whoever after
the passing of this law,” then they had better take care that they
were not made liable to any new judicial proceedings.
This text is part of:
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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