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And thus this young man, full of
ability, worked on the wealthy by fear, on the poor by bribes, on the stupid by leading them
into mistakes; and by these means he extorted those beautiful decrees which have been read to
you,—decrees which were not passed by any formal vote or regular authority, nor
under the sanction of an oath, but carried by holding up the hand, and by the loud shouts of
an excited multitude.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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