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And, that you, O conscript fathers, may see how great is the resemblance
between the two Epicurean generals in their military exploits and management
of their command; Albucius, after he had triumphed in Sardinia, was
condemned at Rome. And as this man expected a similar end to his campaigns,
he laid aside his trophies in Macedonia; and those things which all nations
have agreed in considering the insignia and monuments of military glory and
victory, this extraordinary “Imperator” of ours made the fatal evidences of
towns which had been lost of legions which had been cut to pieces, of a
province stripped of its garrison and of all the rest of its troops, to the
everlasting disgrace of his family and name; and then, in order that there
should to something which might be recorded and engraved on the pedestal of
his trophies, when, on his departure from his province, he arrived at
Dyrrachium, he was besieged by those very soldiers whom he told Torquatus
just now, in answer to his questions, had been disbanded by him out of
kindness.
And when he had assured them with an oath that he would pay them the next day
all that was due to them, he hid himself at home; and then on a very stormy
night, in slippers and in the garb of a slave, he embarked on board a ship,
and avoided Brundusium, and sailed towards the furthest part of the coast of
the Adriatic Sea;
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