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What
more need I say? Suppose that proposition causes delay in the pursuit of
Dolabella? For when will the consul arrive? Are we waiting till there is not
even a vestige of the towns and cities of Asia left? “But they will send some one of their
officers.”—That will certainly be a step that I shall quite
approve of; I who just now objected to giving any extraordinary military command
to ever so illustrious a man if he were only a private individual.
“But they will send a man worthy of such a charge.” Will
they send one more worthy than Publius Servilius? But the city has not such a
man. What then he himself thinks ought to be given to no one, not even by the
senate, can I approve of that being conferred by the decision of one man?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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