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The origins of the republic

De nostrae rei publicae firmitate haec est sententia illius Catonis senis in eius libro De Originibus: ut ille scripsit, ob hanc causam nostrae civitatis statum ceteris civitatibus praestat: quod in ceteris singuli fuissent fere qui(che. sogg.) rem publicam firmavissent legibus atque institutis suis, ut Cretum Minos, Lacedaemoniorum Lycurgus, Atheniensium tum Theseus, tum Draco, tum Solo, tum multi alii; nostram autem rem publicam non unius ingenium sed multorum creavissent, nec una hominis vita sed multorum, paulatim, per saecula et aetates.

Translation

This is the opinion about the soundness of our republic of the famous senator (elder Cato in his book Origines: as he wrote for this issue as the government of our nation is superior to other nations, since in other were mostly those who were single had increased the republic with their laws and institutions, such as Minos for the Cretans, the Lacedaemonians to Lycurgus, like Theseus, Solon, Draco, and many others for the Athenians. On the contrary, our republic was not created by the intelligence of an individual but of the multitude, nor with the life of one man but that of many, little by little, for ages and ages