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O di immortales! fortem et a vobis, iudices, conservandum
virum1! 'minime2, minime'; inquit 'immo vero
poenas ille debitas luerit: nos subeamus, si ita necesse est,
non debitas.' hicine3 vir patriae natus usquam nisi in
patria morietur, aut, si forte, pro patria? huius vos animi
monumenta retinebitis, corporis in Italia nullum sepulcrum
esse patiemini? hunc sua quisquam sententia ex hac urbe
expellet quem4 omnes urbes expulsum a vobis ad se vocabunt?
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit breviqve adnotatione critica instrvxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1918. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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