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I say that he also, when general, defeated
and destroyed that great and well-appointed fleet, which the chiefs of Sertorius's party were
leading against Italy with furious zeal; I say
besides, that by him numerous armies of the enemy were destroyed in several battles, and that
Pontus was opened to our legions, which before his
time had been closed against the Roman people on every side; and that Sinope and Amisus, towns in which the king had palaces, adorned and
furnished with every kind of magnificence, and many other cities of Pontus and Cappadocia,
were taken by his mere approach and arrival near them; that the king himself was stripped of
the kingdom possessed by his father and his grandfather, and forced to betake himself as a
suppliant to other kings and other nations; and that all these great deeds were achieved
without any injury to the allies of the Roman people, or any diminution of its revenues. I
think that this is praise enough;—such praise that you must see, O Romans, that
Lucius Lucullus has not been praised as much from this rostrum by any one of these men who are
objecting to this law and arguing against our cause.
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