Note 672 — Chapter IV · EVENTS OF THE YEAR 699.
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“In my opinion, that which it would have been best for his adversaries to do, would have been to cease a struggle which they are not strong enough to sustain.... At the present day the only ambition one can have is to be quiet, and those who governed would be disposed to allow it us, if they found certain people less rigid against their domination.” (Cicero, Epist. Familiar., I. 8, letter to Lentulus.)