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For it is absurd not to draw lots for
one,—absurd also not to get that which one has drawn by lot. Is he
to march out in the robe of a commander in chief? Whither is he to march?
Why, to a place where he may not arrive before a certain fixed day. All
January and February he is not to have a province. At last on the first of
March up will spring a province for him all on a sudden.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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