That is the right way to deal with one's fellow-citizens, and not, as we have already witnessed on two occasions, to plant the spear in the forum and knock down the property of citizens under the auctioneer's hammer.
Cicero contrasts a just method of resolving property disputes with the violent confiscations seen in Roman history.
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