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376 had taken an oath to the censors, that because of the sterility of his wife, he would repudiate her to give children to the republic. This Was a yoak which the people saw the censors were going to put upon them. I shall discover in the prosecution of this work, the repugnance which they always felt for regulations of the like kind. We should explain the laws by the laws, and history by history. Rh