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in hoc iudicio videtis agi de vi, videtis
agi de hominibus armatis, videtis aedificiorum expugnationes,
agri vastationes, hominum trucidationes, incendia, rapinas,
sanguinem in iudicium venire, et miramini satis habuisse eos
qui hoc iudicium dederunt id quaeri, utrum haec tam acerba,
tam indigna, tam atrocia facta essent necne, non1 utrum iure
facta an iniuria? non ergo praetores a lege Aquilia recesserunt,
quae de damno est2, sed de vi et armis3 severum iudicium
constituerunt, nec ius et iniuriam quaeri nusquam
putarunt oportere, sed eos qui armis quam iure agere maluissent
de iure et iniuria disputare noluerunt.
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M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark. Albert Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1909. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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