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They invoke as witnesses our deceased generals, whose memory and glory
survive for everlasting,—the Scipios, the Bruti, the Horatii, the
Cassii, the Metelli, and this man also, Cnaeus Pompeius whom you see before
you; whom when he was carrying on a great and formidable war far from their
walls, they assisted with supplies and money and at this very time they
invoke as witnesses the Roman people whom now, at a time of great dearness
of provisions they have relieved with a large supply of corn as they had
often done before. They call them, I say, to witness that they wish this to
be their privilege,—to have a place permitted to them and to their
children, whenever there are any of distinguished virtue in our camps and in
the tent of the general and among our standards; and in our line of battle;
and that by these steps they should have a power of rising up to the freedom
of the city.
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