# De Republica 2.66

Cicero, De Republica, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi043.perseus-lat2, Book 2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/de-republica/2.66

Quod autem exemplo nostrae civitatis usus sum, non ad definiendum optimum statum valuit (nam id fieri potuit sine exemplo), sed ut civitate maxima reapse cerneretur quale esset id, quod ratio oratioque describeret. Sin autem sine ullius populi exemplo genus ipsum exquiris optimi status, naturae imagine utendum est nobis, quoniam tu hanc imaginem urbis et populi ni …

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Cicero, De Republica, ed. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Mueller. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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