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It is just the same thing that you
did when you also carried these different enactments in one
law,—one, that the king of Cyprus, whose ancestors had always been allies and friends
to this nation, should have all his goods sold by the public crier, and the
other, that the exiles should be brought back to Byzantium. “Oh,”
says he, “I employed the same person on both those
matters.” What? Suppose you had given the same man a commission to
get you an Asiatic coin in Asia,
and from thence to proceed into Spain; and given him leave, after he had departed from
Rome, to stand for the
consulship, and, after he was made consul, to obtain Syria for his province; would that be all
one measure, because you were mentioning only one man?
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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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