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quia non alio facinore clari homines, alio obscuri
necantur. intersit inter vitae dignitatem summorum atque
infimorum; mors quidem inlata per scelus isdem et1 poenis
teneatur et legibus. Nisi forte magis erit parricida, si qui
consularem patrem quam si qui humilem2 necarit, aut eo
mors atrocior erit P3. Clodi quod is in monumentis maiorum
suorum sit interfectus4—hoc enim ab istis saepe dicitur—
proinde quasi Appius ille Caecus viam munierit5, non qua
populus uteretur, sed ubi impune sui posteri latrocinarentur!
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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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