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But, to be sure, that most illustrious man, Quintus Catulus, a man most honestly attached to
the republic, and loaded with your kindness in a way most honourable to him; and also Quintus
Hortensius, a man endowed with the highest qualities of honour, and fortune, and virtue, and
genius, disagree to this proposal. And I admit that their authority has in many instances had
the greatest weight with you, and that it ought to have the greatest weight; but in this
cause, although you are aware that the opinions of many very brave and illustrious men are
unfavourable to us, still it is possible for us, disregarding those authorities, to arrive at
the truth by the circumstances of the case and by reason. And so much the more easily, because
those very men admit that everything which has been said by me up to this time is
true,—that the war is necessary, that it is an important war, and that all the
requisite qualifications are in the highest perfection in Cnaeus Pompeius.
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