BOOK VI.
SCIPIO'S DREAM.
I.Therefore you rely upon all the prudence of this rule, which has derived its very name (_prudentia_) from foreseeing (_a providendo_).

Wherefore the citizen must so prepare himself as to be always armed against those things which trouble the constitution of a state.

And that dissension of the citizens, when one party separates from and attacks another, is called sedition.
And in truth in civil dissensions, as the good are of more importance than the many, I think that we should regard the weight of the citizens, and not their number.
For the lusts, being severe mistresses of the thoughts, command and compel many an unbridled action.

And as they cannot be satisfied or appeased by any means, they urge those whom they have inflamed with their allurements to every kind of atrocity.
II.

Which indeed was so much the greater in him because though the cause of the colleagues was identical, not only was their unpopularity not equal, but the influence of Gracchus was employed in mitigating the hatred borne to Claudius.
Who encountered the number of the chiefs and nobles with these words, and left behind him that mournful and dignified expression of his gravity and influence.
That, as he writes, a thousand men might every day descend into the forum with cloaks dyed in purple.
[_The next paragraph is unintelligible._] For our ancestors wished marriages to be firmly established.
There is a speech extant of Laelius with which we are all acquainted, expressing how pleasing to the immortal gods are the * * * and * * * of the priests.
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