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 1 Arg|     carried unanimously) that the senate also should put on mourning
 2 Arg|       authority and decree of the senate; may it please you to ordain
 3 Arg|      Ninnius made a motion in the senate to recall him and to repeal
 4 Arg|          interposed his veto. The senate, however, passed a resolution
 5 Arg|     Lentulus made a motion in the senate for Cicero's recall; Metellus
 6 Arg|            but that a vote of the senate would be sufficient. The
 7 Arg|         in the time of Cinna. The senate passed a resolution that
 8 Arg|          the consuls summoned the senate to give him an opportunity
 9 2  |      devoted to this order of the senate by which we have been frequently
10 5  |         come with safety into the senate,—then your unanimity with
11 8  |         any trial, taken from the senate and the republic at the
12 16 |    republic,—the authority of the senate,—the fortunes of a citizen
13 16 |          not allowed to the Roman senate or people to come to the
14 17 |          you were obedient to the senate? Did you dare, when you
15 17 |  expression you declared that the senate and all virtuous men were
16 18 |   ignorant what was going on, the senate being beaten down and crushed,
17 20 |      recommended the cause of the senate, thrown into disorder as
18 24 |   broken-hearted man? So that the senate summoned the citizens and
19 25 |           than the fact, that the senate had declared its judgment
20 26 |           day when you met in the senate to the number of four hundred
21 31 |        but in my danger the whole senate changed its garments as
22 33 |         Wherefore, when I saw the senate deprived of leaders, and
23 34 | magistrates, the authority of the senate, the liberty of the citizens,
24 38 |           ensuring my safety. The senate never decreed anything respecting
25 38 |      authority on the part of the senate, though one of them had
26 38 |           did in obedience to the senate, the other had fled from
27 38 |          only not restored by the senate, but by his return almost
28 38 |       return almost destroyed the senate. There was no unanimity