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But there are letters of Faustus's extant,
in which he begs and prays Publius Sulla to buy gladiators, and to buy this very troop: and
not only were such letters sent to Publius Sulla, but they were sent also to Lucius Caesar, to
Quintus Pompeius, and to Gains Memmius, by whose advice the whole business was managed. But
Cornelius 1 was appointed to manage the troop. If in the respect
of the purchase of this household of gladiators no suspicion attaches to the circumstances, it
certainly can make no difference that he was appointed to manage them afterwards. But still,
he in reality only discharged the servile duty of providing them with arms; but he never did
superintend the men themselves; that duty was always discharged by Balbus, a freedman of
Faustus.
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1 This Cornelius is not the Roman knight mentioned before; but some freedman of Publius Sulla.
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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