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Having sold all
these ensigns and crowns, as it were, of the empire, with which the republic was adorned, and
handed down to you by your ancestors, they then order the lands to be sold which the king
Mithridates possessed in Paphlagonia, and Pontus, and Cappadocia. Do they not seem to be pursuing without much disguise, and almost
with the crier's spear, the army of Cnaeus Pompeius, when they order those lands to be sold
in which he is now engaged and carrying on war?
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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