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 1 Arg    |   tribune A. U. C. 696. And the consuls, Lucius Calpurnius Piso
 2 Arg    |       all this body went to the consuls to implore their favour
 3 Arg    |      put on mourning robes. The consuls issued an edict forbidding
 4 Arg    |         proceeded with till the consuls had prepared a new law respecting
 5 Arg    | promoting his recall. ~ The new consuls were Publius Cornelius Lentulus,
 6 Arg    |         the moment that the new consuls entered on their office,
 7 Arg    |        carried, and ordered the consuls to summon all the people
 8 Arg    | September, and the next day the consuls summoned the senate to give
 9 3      |     demand my safety from those consuls who had sold it.
10 4      |      under your notice. For the consuls being modest men, and having
11 4      |        the republic was without consuls, and bereft, like an orphan,
12 9      |       of things with respect to consuls could have remained lasting
13 10     |        that time there were two consuls, whose minds, narrow, contemptible,
14 10     |        authority. They were not consuls, but dealers in provinces,
15 10     |       who (I will not call them consuls, but robbers) not only deserted,
16 17     |       or at Rome, where all the consuls that ever existed before
17 18     |    being two wicked and impious consuls, the treasury, the prisoners,
18 [Title]|       the ruin wrought by these consuls you, O consuls, have prevented
19 [Title]|         by these consuls you, O consuls, have prevented from spreading