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How great his wisdom is, how great his authority and
fluency in speaking,—and that too is a quality in which the dignity of a general is
greatly concerned,—you, O Romans, have often experienced yourselves in this very
place. But how great do you think his good faith must have been towards your allies, when the
enemies of all nations have placed implicit confidence in it? His humanity is such that it is
difficult to say, whether the enemy feared his valour more when fighting against him, or loved
his mildness more when they had been conquered by him. And will any one doubt, that this
important war ought to be entrusted to him, who seems to have been born by some especial
design and favour of the gods for the express purpose of finishing all the wars which have
existed in their own recollection?
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