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After that, the law most carefully provides for the future, that, whatever
money any general receives, he is at once to pay over to the decemvirs. But here he excepts
Pompeius, very much as, as it seems to me, in that law by which aliens are sent away from
Rome an exception is made in favour of Glaucippus.
For the effect of this exception is not to confer a kindness on one man, but merely to save
one man from injustice. But the man whose spoils the law thus spares, has his revenues
invaded by the same law. For it orders all the money which is received after our consulship
from the new revenues, to be placed to the use of the decemvirs. As if we did not see that
they were thinking of selling the revenues which Cnaeus Pompeius has added to the wealth of
the Roman people.
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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