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“He is here taking care of Mustela and Tiro; he is not anxious about
himself. For what has he done? has he ever touched the public money, or murdered
a man, or had armed men about him? But what reason has he for taking so much
trouble about them? For he demands, “that his own judiciary law be not
abrogated.” And if he obtains that, what is there that he can fear?
can he be afraid that any one of his friends may be convicted by Cydas, or
Lysiades, or Curius? However, he does not press us with many more demands.
“I give up,” says he, “Gallia
Togata; I demand Gallia
Comata.”1—he
evidently wishes to be quite at his ease,—“with six legions,
and those made up to their full complement out of the army of Decimus
Brutus;”—not only out of the troops whom he has enlisted
himself; “and he is to keep possession of it as long as Marcus Brutus
and Caius Cassius, as consuls, or as proconsuls, keep possession of their
provinces.” In the comitia held by him, his brother Caius (for it is
his year) has already been repulsed.
1 The province between the Alps and the Rubicon was called Gallia Citerior, or Cisalpina, from its situation; also Togata, from the inhabitants wearing the Roman toga. The other was called Ulterior, and by Cicero often Ultima, or Transalpina; and also Comata from the fashion of the inhabitants wearing long hair.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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