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But as you wanted to fill all Italy with your
colonies, did you think that not one of us would understand what sort of a measure that was?
For it is written, “The decemvirs may lead whatever settlers they choose into
whatever municipalities and colonies they like; and they may assign them lands in whatever
places they please;” so that, when they have occupied all Italy with their soldiers, you may have no hope left you, I
will not say of retaining your dignity, but none even of recovering your liberty. And these
things, indeed, I object to on suspicion and from conjecture.
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