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But, if Cnaeus Pompeius were a private individual at
Rome at this present time, still he would be the
man who ought to be selected and sent out to so great a war. But now, when to all the other
exceeding advantages of the appointment, this opportunity is also added,—that he is
in those very countries already,—that he has an army with him,—that there
is another army there which can at once be made over to him by those who are in command of
it,—why do we delay? or why do we not, under the guidance of the immortal gods
themselves, commit this royal war also to him to whom all the other wars in those parts have
been already entrusted to the greatest advantage, to the very safety of the republic?
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