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Who was it—what god was it; who at that time gave
to the Roman people this godlike young man, who, while every means for
completing our destruction seemed open to that most pernicious citizen, rising
up on a sudden, beyond every one's hope, completed an army fit to oppose the
fury of Marcus Antonius before any one suspected that he was thinking of any
such step? Great honors were paid to Cnaeus Pompeius when he was a young man and
deservedly, for he came to the assistance of the republic but he was of a more
vigorous age and more calculated to meet the eager requirements of soldiers
seeking a general. He had also been already trained in other kinds of war. For
the cause of Sulla was not agreeable to all men. The multitude of the
proscribed, and the enormous calamities that fell on so many municipal towns
show this plainly.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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