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But perhaps it seems to you that I who engaged
in various kinds of warfare as private, captain,
general, and commander-in-chief, am unemployed
now that I do not go to war. And yet I direct the
senate as to what wars should be waged and how;
at the present time, far in advance of hostilities, I
am declaring war on Carthage, for she has long been
plotting mischief; and I shall not cease to fear her
until I know that she has been utterly destroyed.
And I pray the immortal gods to reserve for you,
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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