# De Republica 4.12

Cicero, De Republica, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi043.perseus-lat2, Book 4. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/de-republica/4.12

Nostrae contra duo decim tabulae cum perpaucas res capite sanxissent, in his hanc quoque sanciendam putaverunt, si quis occentavisset sive carmen condidisset, quod infamiam faceret flagitiumve alteri. Praeclare; iudiciis enim magistratuum, disceptationibus legitimis propositam vitam, non poetarum ingeniis, habere debemus nec probrum audire nisi ea lege, ut respondere liceat et iudicio defendere. … veteribus displicuisse Romanis vel laudari quemquam in scaena vivum hominem vel vituperari.

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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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