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Do not you think that you ought to recall these men from their provinces even
if you had no one to send thither in their places? Would you, could you
retain there these two pests of the allies, these men who are the
destruction of the soldiers, the ruin of the farmers of the revenue, the
desolators of the provinces, the disgracers of the empire? But you,
yourselves, in the preceding year did recall these very men when they had
only just arrived in the provinces. And if at that time your judgment had
been unfettered and if the matter had not been so frequently adjourned and
at the last taken wholly out of your hands you would have restored your
authority, as you were most anxious to do recalling those men by whom it had
been lost and compelling them to render up the rewards which they had
received and whom had been conferred on them in return for their wickedness
and for the overthrow of their country. And if they at that
time escaped from that punishment, through no merit of their own, but
through the influence of others, greatly against your consent, still they
have undergone a much greater and severer punishment.
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