This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. It was the speech of the Roman people, to whom the name of _king_ had been rendered odious, as well by the tyranny of the Tarquins as by the genius and decretals of that city; it was the speech, I say, of the public, however pronounced from a private mouth, (if yet Cato the censor were no more than such): _that all kings are to be reckoned amongst ravenous beasts_. But what a beast of prey was the Roman people; whilst with its conquering eagles it erected its proud trophies so far and wide over the world, bringing the Africans, the Asiatics, the Macedonians, and…
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