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You speak of the
triumphs of Titus Didius, and Caius Marius; and ask what there is like these
exploits in Plancius. As if those men whom you are speaking of obtained
their magistracies because they had triumphed, and did not on the contrary
triumph after having performed great achievements, because those
magistracies were entrusted to them. You ask what campaigns he has served;
when he was a soldier in Crete,
while Metellus, who is here in court, was commander-in-chief, and military
tribune in Macedonia; and when he
was quaestor he only abstracted just so much time from his attention to his
military duties as he thought it better to devote to protecting me.
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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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