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How did you bear that? To whom did you carry your
complaints of the insults which you had received? Why, to that man whose
authority you had followed when you came to join his party in the war. If it
had been in Caesar's cause that you were coming to the province,
unquestionably, when excluded from the province, it was to him that you
would have gone. But you came to Pompeius. What is the meaning, then, of
this complaint which you now urge before Caesar, when you accuse that man by
whom you complain that you were prevented from waging war against Caesar?
And as to this part of the business you may boast for all I care, even
though it will be falsely, that you would have given the province up to
Caesar, even if you had been forbidden by Varus, and by some others. But I
will confess that the fault was all Ligarius's, who deprived you of an
opportunity of acquiring so much glory.
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