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I am
accustomed often to keep this idea before my eyes, and often to affirm in
frequent conversations, that all the exploits of our own generals, all those
of foreign nations and of most powerful states, all the mighty deeds of the
most illustrious monarchs, can be compared with yours neither in the
magnitude of your wars, nor in the number of your battles, nor in the
variety of countries which you have conquered, nor in the
rapidity of your conquests, nor in the great difference of character with
which your wars have been marked; and that those countries the most remote
from each other could not be traveled over more rapidly by any one in a
journey, than they have been visited by your, I will not say journeys, but
victories.
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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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