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The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1

Note 570 — CXXXI (Q FR II, 9)

Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation

Lit. "has been beheaded with the axe of Tenes," mythical founder and legislator of Tenedos, whose laws were of Draconian severity. A legatio from Tenedos, heard as usual in February, had asked that Tenedos might be made a libera civitas.

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