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Is it
so? Did you annul the arrangement of the consular provinces, which Caius
Gracchus, than whom there hardly ever lived a man more devoted to the
people, not only abstained from taking from the senate, but even passed a
solemn law to establish the principle that they were to be settled every
year by the senate;—did you, I say, disturb that arrangement, and
that too after it had been formally settled according to the Sempronian law?
You gave the provinces, in an irregular manner, without casting lots, not to
the consuls, but to the pests of the republic, expressly naming them. And
shall we be found fault with, because we have appointed a most illustrious
man, who has often been selected before on occasions of the greatest danger
to the republic, (expressly naming him,) to superintend a matter of the most
urgent importance, and which was previously in an almost desperate
condition?
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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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