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 1 Pre| institutions have become completely corrupt and far removed from the
 2 1  |        antiquity, not the false and corrupt; for while these practices
 3 1  |           only are the things which corrupt the King and all the Ministers
 4 1  |             in them, as they did in corrupt times.~Ottavianus first,
 5 1  |             on the men at arms is a corrupt thing and not good. The
 6 1  |            arms, both because it is corrupt and because it can cause
 7 1  |           is peace, it stems from a corrupt order. As to the provisions
 8 1  |             this likewise is a most corrupt order, for a wise Republic
 9 1  |              for they are easier to corrupt, and a citizen who becomes
10 2  |            part of the army is less corrupt than that of the infantry,
11 7  |           an alien country, full of corrupt men, and not accustomed