Thursday, July 25, 2024
Treated Like Conquered People
Sallust, Histories, fragment 48.27 Maurenbrecher (speech of C. Licinius Macer, 73 BC; tr. William W. Batstone):
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The plebs, whatever happens, are treated like conquered people and this will get worse, as long as the few are more eager to hold on to their tyranny than you are to regain your freedom.
plebes, quodcumque accidit, pro victis est et in dies magis erit, si quidem maiore cura dominationem illi retinuerint, quam vos repetiveritis libertatem.
