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Nor does the insult consist solely in this, though this is very
preposterous, and very unprecedented, that anything which has been acquired in war, while the
general is still carrying on the war, should be sold, or even let. But these men have
something more in view than mere insult. They hope, if it is allowed to the enemies of Cnaeus
Pompeius, not only to stroll about other countries, but even to come to his very army with
absolute authority, with a power of sitting as judges in every case, with boundless power,
and with countless sums of money, that some plot may be laid against him himself; and that
something may be taken from his army, or power, or renown. They think that, if the army
reposes any hope in Cnaeus Pompeius with respect to either lands, or any other advantages, it
will do so no longer when it sees that the supreme power in all those matters is transferred
to the decemvirs.
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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