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And in this I will pass over that period of proscription and
rapine which took place under Sulla; nor will I allow him to derive any argument for
his own defence from that time of common calamity to all men. I will accuse him of
nothing but his own peculiar and well-proved crimes. Therefore, omitting all mention
of the time of Sulla from the accusation, consider that splendid lieutenancy of his.
After Cilicia was appointed to Cnaeus
Dolabella as his province, O ye immortal gods! with what covetousness, with what
incessant applications, did he force from him that lieutenancy for himself, which
was indeed the beginning of the greatest calamity to Dolabella. For as he proceeded
on his journey to the province, wherever he went his conduct was such, that it was
not some lieutenant of the Roman people, but rather some calamity that seemed to be
going through the country.
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