Qui cum dissuadens legem in contione dixisset esse quidem praeclarum virum Cn. Pompeium, sed nimium iam liberae rei publicae neque omnia in uno reponenda adiecissetque: si quid huic acciderit, quem in eius locum substituetis? subclamavit universa contio, te, Q. Catule.
Opposing the law before the assembled people he had said that Pompey was without question a great man, but that he was now becoming too great for a free republic, and that all powers ought not to be reposed in one man. If anything happens to Pompey, he added, whom will you put in his place? The people shouted with one accord, You, Catulus.
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