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Cato was next
to me. Was there nothing which you could do beyond making him who had been
my leader and guide in all my conduct a partner also in my misfortune? What?
Could you banish him? What then? You could send him away for the money of
Cyprus. One booty may have been
lost; another will be sure to be found; only let this man be got out of the
way. Accordingly, the hated Marcus Cato is commissioned to go to Cyprus, as if it was a kindness that was
being conferred on him. Two men are removed, whom the wicked men could not
bear the sight of; one by the most discreditable sort of honour, the other
by the most honourable possible calamity.
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