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As Tacitus presents <strong>the</strong> case, freedom needs<br />

disorder. Disorder, however, as Maternus perceptively<br />

notes, may be <strong>the</strong> result <strong>of</strong> license, which, in fact, causes<br />

harm to <strong>the</strong> state. In order to speak freely, <strong>the</strong>re must be<br />

discussion, but also an acceptable amount and type <strong>of</strong><br />

disorder. This point is, perhaps, why it is best to consider<br />

<strong>the</strong> Tacitean corpus toge<strong>the</strong>r: reading <strong>the</strong> Dialogus and <strong>the</strong><br />

exchange between Segestes and Arminius, one can see that<br />

a connection between freedom and disorder exists but, also,<br />

that <strong>the</strong>re is a need for <strong>the</strong>re to be a certain a level <strong>of</strong><br />

restraint. Reading <strong>the</strong> speeches <strong>of</strong> Segestes and Arminius<br />

delineates <strong>the</strong> connection between disorder and freedom.<br />

The Dialogus de Oratoribus does <strong>the</strong> same through a<br />

diachronic progression. By pairing <strong>the</strong> pieces, one can see<br />

how freedom was maintained in one context, but lost in<br />

ano<strong>the</strong>r.<br />

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