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Soleo
saepe ante oculos ponere idque libenter crebris usurpare
sermonibus, omnis nostrorum imperatorum, omnis exterarum
gentium potentissimorumque populorum, omnis regum clarissimorum1
res gestas cum tuis nec contentionum magnitudine
nec numero proeliorum nec varietate regionum nec
celeritate conficiendi nec dissimilitudine bellorum posse
conferri, nec vero disiunctissimas terras citius passibus cuiusquam
potuisse peragrari quam tuis non dicam cursibus, sed
victoriis lustratae2 sunt.
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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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