# De Republica 3.16

Cicero, De Republica, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi043.perseus-lat2, Book 3. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/de-republica/3.16

nos vero iustissimi homines, qui Transalpinas gentis oleam et vitem serere non sinimus, quo pluris sint nostra oliveta nostraeque vineae; quod cum faciamus, prudenter facere dicimur, iuste non dicimur, ut intellegatis discrepare ab aequitate sapientiam. Lycurgus autem, ille legum optumarum et aequissumi iuris inventor, agros locupletium plebi ut servitio colendos dedit.

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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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