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There are four provinces, O conscript fathers, concerning which I understand
that opinions have as yet been delivered: the two Gauls, which at present we
see united under one command; and Syria; and Macedonia; which, against your will, and when you were
suffering under oppression and constraint, those pernicious
consuls seized on as their reward for having overturned the republic.
According to the provisions of the Sempronian law, we have now to decree two
to the consuls. How is it possible for us to doubt about Syria and Macedonia being these two? I say nothing of the fact that
those men are holding them at present who procured them in such a way that
they did not get them till they condemned this order of ours till they had
destroyed your authority and put an end to it in the state till they had
destroyed all public credit and good faith endangered the lasting safety of
the Roman people, and harassed me and my friends and relations in the most
shameful and barbarous manner.
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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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