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Caesar! I bet you'd forgotten about the exciting grain-demanding scene we'd paused on, hadn't you?
1.17.1 Then Liscus, who'd been brought along, at last with a speech exposed to Caesar this matter, which he had previously kept quiet: "There are a few men whose popularity among the many plebes os strong, and who as private men are able to do more than the magistrates themselves.
1.17.2 "These men are swaying the masses with seditious and wicked argument, lest they hand over the grain which they owe;
1.17.3 "[an argument that] it is superior, if for now they are unable to obtain rulership of Gaul, to take a Gaulish ruler than a Roman one;
1.17.4 "and they should not doubt but that, if the Romans conquer the Helvetii, they will seize freedom from the Haedui along with the rest of Gaul.
1.17.5 "By these very men our plans and our actions are reported to the enemy camps; and it is not possible for me to suppress these men.
1.17.6 "But instead, since I am forced by necessity to tell you this, I know how great a risk I have brought on myself; and it's for this reason that I was able to stay silent for so long."
1.17.1 Then Liscus, who'd been brought along, at last with a speech exposed to Caesar this matter, which he had previously kept quiet: "There are a few men whose popularity among the many plebes os strong, and who as private men are able to do more than the magistrates themselves.
1.17.2 "These men are swaying the masses with seditious and wicked argument, lest they hand over the grain which they owe;
1.17.3 "[an argument that] it is superior, if for now they are unable to obtain rulership of Gaul, to take a Gaulish ruler than a Roman one;
1.17.4 "and they should not doubt but that, if the Romans conquer the Helvetii, they will seize freedom from the Haedui along with the rest of Gaul.
1.17.5 "By these very men our plans and our actions are reported to the enemy camps; and it is not possible for me to suppress these men.
1.17.6 "But instead, since I am forced by necessity to tell you this, I know how great a risk I have brought on myself; and it's for this reason that I was able to stay silent for so long."
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