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But still there
are some points which I can argue with them; but still, how great is your
impudence, when you dare to say that nothing ought to be given to any one
out of the regular routine! You who, when, by an iniquitous law, for some
unknown cause you had confiscated the property of Ptolemy, King of
Cyprus, the brother of the King
of Alexandria, who was reigning by the same right as he was, and had
involved the Roman people in the crime,—when you had sent a band
of robbers from this empire to ravage his kingdom, and goods, and property,
though there had been a long alliance and friendship between us and his
father, and grandfather, and still more remote
ancestors,—appointed Marcus Cato to superintend the carrying away
of his money, and the managing the war if any individual was found hardy
enough to defend his own property.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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