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perfuncta res publica est hoc1
misero fatalique bello: vicit is qui non fortuna inflammaret
odium suum, sed bonitate leniret; neque omnis2
quibus iratus esset eosdem etiam3 exsilio aut morte dignos
iudicaret. arma ab aliis posita, ab aliis erepta sunt. ingratus
est iniustusque civis qui armorum periculo liberatus
animum tamen retinet armatum, ut etiam ille melior sit4 qui
in acie cecidit, qui in causa animam profudit. quae enim
pertinacia quibusdam, eadem aliis constantia videri potest.
sed iam omnis fracta dissensio est armis,
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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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