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Did you think, otherwise, that when a few men had cast the eyes of
covetousness on all your possessions, they would not in the very first place take care that
Cnaeus Pompeius should be removed from all power of protecting your liberty, from all power
to promote, from all commission to watch over, and from all means of protecting your
interests? They saw, and they see still, that if, through your own imprudence and my
negligence, you adopt this law, without understanding its effect, you would afterwards, when
you were creating decemvirs, think it expedient to oppose Cnaeus Pompeius as your defence
against all defects and wickednesses in the law. And is this a slight argument to you, that
these are men by whom dominion and power over everything is sought, when you see that he,
whom they see will surely be the protector of your liberty, is the only one to whom that
dignity is denied?
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