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Cicero, on hearing of these transactions, was struck with so threatening an evil; and not being able any longer to defend the city against the plots of the conspirators by his own private management, nor being apprized of the strength or views of Manlius’s army, laid the matter before the senate, which already had been the subject of public conversation. Whereon the senate, as was usual in cases of extreme danger, passed a decree “that the consuls should take care the state suffered no detriment;” by which they were empowered (such is the policy of the Roman government) to raise forces, make war, exercise an unlimited jurisdiction over the citizens and allies, and to bear sovereign command both in the city and in the field; none of which things fall under their authority without a special ordinance of the people.