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See, now, how wide is the distance between the counsels of our ancestors and the insane
projects of these men. They chose Capua to be a
refuge for our farmers,—a market for the country people,—a barn and
granary for the Campanian district. These men, having expelled the farmers, have wasted and
squandered your revenues, are raising this same Capua into the seat of a new republic, are preparing a vast mass to be an enemy
to the old republic. But if our ancestors had thought that any one in such an illustrious
empire, in such an admirable constitution as that of the Roman people, would have been like
Marcus Brutus or Publius Rullus, (for these are the only two men whom we have hitherto seen,
who have wished to transfer all this republic to Capua,) they would not, in truth, have left even the name of that city in
existence.
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