# De Republica 3.46

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/de-republica/3.46

… dici possint, cur illa sit res publica resque populi, quae sunt dicta de regno. Et multo etiam magis, inquit Mummius; nam in regem potius cadit domini similitudo, quod est unus; plures vero boni in qua re publica rerum potientur, nihil poterit esse illa beatius. Sed tamen vel regnum malo quam liberum populum; id enim tibi restat genus vitiosissumae rei publicae tertium.

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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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