Cum a tribuno plebis vetaretur, cum praeclarum caput recitaretur, ne quis ad vos referret, ne quis decerneret, ne disputaret, ne loqueretur, ne pedibus iret, ne scribendo adesset, totam illam, ut ante dixi, proscriptionem non legem putavit, qua civis optime de re publica meritus nominatim sine iudicio una cum senatu rei publicae esset ereptus.
From the day of his election to that office, he unflinchingly expressed himself on the subject of my restoration in a manner worthy of himself and of the republic. When a tribune of the plebs imposed his veto upon him, and when that astounding clause of the law was being publicly read, forbidding anyone to move, decree, discuss, allude to, vote upon, or witness the drafting of, a measure to this end, he treated the whole document not as a law, but (as I have already called it) as a proscription; since according to its terms a citizen whose services to the state had been pre-eminent, and whom it mentioned by name, had been torn without trial from that state, and the senate with him.
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