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Why should I speak of Lucius. Cinna? whose extraordinary
integrity, proved under many trying circumstances, makes the glory of his
present admirable conduct less remarkable; he has altogether disregarded the
province assigned to him; and so has Caius Cestius, a man of great and firm
mind.
Who are there left then to be delighted with this heaven-sent allotment? Lucius
Antonius and Marcus Antonius! O happy pair! for there is nothing that they
wished for more. Caius. Antonius has Macedonia. Happy, too, is he! For he was constantly talking
about this province. Caius Calvisius has Africa. Nothing could be more fortunate, for he had only just
departed from Africa, and, as if he had
divined that he should return, he left two lieutenants at Utica. Then Marcus Iccius has Sicily, and Quintus Cassius Spain. I do not
know what to suspect. I fancy the lots which assigned these two provinces, were
not quite so carefully attended to by the gods.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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