vii.: "Nihil est enim illi principi deo, qui omnem hunc mundum regit, quod quidem in terris fiat acceptius." Tusc.Quest., lib.i., ca.

xxx.: "Vetat enim dominans ille in nobis deus." [30] De Rep., lib.vi., ca.

vii.: "Certum esse in c[oe]lo definitum locum, ubi beati aevo sempiterno fruantur." [31] Hor., lib.i., Ode xxii., "Non rura quae; Liris quieta Mordet aqua taciturnus amnis." [32] Such was the presumed condition of things at Rome.
By the passing of a special law a plebeian might, and occasionally did, become patrician.

The patricians had so nearly died out in the time of Julius Caesar that he introduced fifty new families by the Lex Cassia.
[33] De Orat., lib.ii., ca.

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[34] Brutus, ca.