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Indeed up to this time your generals have been, contending
with the king so as to carry off tokens of victory rather than actual victory. Lucius Sulla
has triumphed, Lucius Murena has triumphed over Mithridates, two most gallant men, and most
consummate generals; but yet they have triumphed in such a way that he, though routed and
defeated, was still king. Not but what praise is to be given to those generals for what they
did. Pardon must be conceded to them for what they left undone; because the republic recalled
Sulla from that war into Italy, and Sulla recalled
Murena.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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