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What can you do with a man who puts on paper and records the fact, that his
agreement with Dolabella is so complete, that he would kill Trebonius, and, if
he could, Brutus and Cassius too with every circumstance of torture; and inflict
the same punishment on us also? Certainly, a man who makes so pious and fair a
treaty is a citizen to be taken care of! He also complains that the conditions
which he offered, those reasonable and modest conditions, were rejected; namely,
that he was to have the farther Gaul,—the province the most suitable of all for renewing
and carrying on the war; that the legionaries of the Alauda should be judges in
the third decury; that is to say, that there shall be an asylum for all crimes,
to the indelible disgrace of the republic; that his own acts should be ratified,
his,—when not one trace of his consulship has been allowed to remain!
He showed his regard also for the interests of Lucius Antonius, who had been a
most equitable surveyor of private and public domains, with Nucula and Lento for
his colleagues.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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