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But, however, all
these topics I will pass over, not so much for fear of offending your most
patient ears, as because that I do not wish that Tubero should appear to
have been likely to do what he never thought of.
You two came, then, into the province of Africa,—the province of
all others that was most hostile to the views of this victorious party in
which there was a most powerful king, an enemy to this cause, and in which
the inclinations of a large and powerful body of Roman settlers were
entirely adverse to it. I ask what you intended to do? Though I do not
really doubt what you intended to do, when I see what you have
done. You were forbidden to set foot in your province, and forbidden, as you
state yourselves, with the greatest insults.
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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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