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Now, too, after the disaster which befell
us in Pontus, from the result of that battle, of
which, sorely against my will, I just now reminded you, when our allies were in a state of
alarm, when the power and spirits of our enemies had risen, and the province was in a very
insufficient state of defence, you would have entirely lost Asia, O Romans, if the fortune of the Roman people had not, by some divine
interposition, brought Cnaeus Pompeius at that particular moment into those regions. His
arrival both checked Mithridates, elated with his unusual victory, and delayed Tigranes, who
was threatening Asia with a formidable army. And can
any one doubt what he will accomplish by his valour, when he did so much by his authority and
reputation? or how easily he will preserve our allies and our revenues by his power and his
army, when he defended them by the mere, terror of his name?
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