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What, then, does Hortensius say? “That if the whole power must be
given to one man, Pompeius alone is most worthy to have it, but that, nevertheless, the power
ought not to be entrusted to one individual.” That argument, however, has now become
obsolete, having been refuted much more by facts than by words. For you, also, Quintus
Hortensius, said many things with great force and fluency (as might be expected from your
exceeding ability, and eminent facility as an orator) in the senate against that brave man,
Aulus Gabinius, when he had brought forward the law about appointing one commander-in-chief
against the pirates; and also from this place where I now stand, you made a long speech
against that law.
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