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I appear to have said enough to make you see why this war is in its very nature unavoidable,
in its magnitude dangerous. It remains for me to speak of the general who ought to be selected
for that war, and appointed to the management of such important affairs.
I wish, O Romans, that you had such an abundance of brave and honest men, that it was a
difficult subject for your deliberations, whom you thought most desirable to be appointed to
the conduct of such important affairs, and so vast a war. But now, when there is Cnaeus
Pompeius alone, who has exceeded in valour, not only the glory of these men who are now alive,
but even all recollections of antiquity, what is there that, in this case, can raise a doubt
in the mind of any one?
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