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The house of Publius Valerius shall not stand in the way of your liberty, Romans; the Velian mount shall be secure to you.
I will not only bring down my house into the plain, but I will build it beneath the hill, that you may dwell above me a suspected citizen.
Let those build on the Velian mount to whom liberty is more securely intrusted than to P.Valerius." Immediately all the materials were brought down to the foot of the Velian mount, and the house was built at the foot of the hill where the temple of Victory now stands. [Footnote 70: _Uno plus Tuscorum._ [Greek: Hos heni pleious en te mache tethnekasi Tyrrhenon e Rhomaion].] [Footnote 71: _A year_, scil.
of ten months.] 8.
After this laws were passed, which not only cleared him of all suspicions of aiming at the regal power, but had so contrary a tendency, that they made him popular.
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