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The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1

Note 337 — LXXII (A III, 15)

Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation

A privilegium was a law referring to a particular person, which was forbidden by the twelve tables, and if it was shewn to be unconstitutional a decree of the senate could declare it void. But Cicero seems to think that such a proceeding of the senate would give a possibility of raising the question afresh.

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