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Thus the hundred senators divide the government among them, ten decuries being formed, and one selected from each decury, who was to have the chief direction of affairs.

For the effect of the law is, to make those men judges in the third decury who do not dare to judge with freedom.

What? are not all the laws of Caesar respecting judicial proceedings abrogated by the law which has been proposed concerning the third decury?

He, also, complains that the conditions which he offered, those reasonable and modest conditions, were rejected; namely, that he was to have the further Gaul,—the province the most suitable of all for renewing and carrying on the war; that the legionaries of the Alauda should be judges in the third decury; that is to say, that there shall be an asylum for all crimes, to the indelible disgrace of the republic; that his own acts should be ratified, his,—when not one trace of his consulship has been allowed to remain!

But what is that third decury?