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Afterwards, when he had
advanced somewhat in age and strength, he went into Africa, as a comrade of Quintus Pompeius
the proconsul, one of the most temperate of men, and one of the strictest in
the performance of every duty. And as his paternal property and estate lay
in that province, he thought that some knowledge of its habits and feelings
would be usefully acquired by him, now that he was of an age which our
ancestors thought adapted for gaining that sort of information. He departed
from Africa, having gained the most
favourable opinion of Pompeius, as you shall learn from Pompeius's own
evidence.
He then wished, according to the old-fashioned custom, and following the
example of those young men who afterwards turned out most eminent men and
most illustrious citizens in the state, to signalise his industry in the
eyes of the Roman people, by some very conspicuous prosecution.
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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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