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Concerning
my safety most magnificent and admirable speeches were made by Publius
Lentulus a most excellent man and a most admirable consul by Cnaeus
Pompeius, that most illustrious and invincible citizen, and by the other
leading men of the city, and concerning me the senate passed a resolution,
at the instigation and on the especial motion of Cnaeus Pompeius, that if
any one hindered my return in any manner, he should be considered as an
enemy of the state, and the authoritative opinion of the senate concerning
me was declared in such language that no triumph was ever decreed to any one
in a more complimentary or more honourable manner than that in which my
safety and restoration to my country was provided for.
When all the magistrates had concurred in the law respecting me, with the
exception of one praetor from whom it was not reasonable to ask it as he was
the brother of my great enemy, and with the exception also of two tribunes
of the people, who had been bought like slaves,1 then Publius Lentulus the consul passed a law concerning
me in the comitia centuriata, acting with the consent of his colleague, Quintus Metellus, whom the same
republic, which had alienated us from one another in his tribuneship,
reconciled to me again in his consulship, in consequence of the virtue of
one most excellent and most sensible man.
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