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But as for Syria, is that Semiramis
any longer to be retained there? a man whose march into the province bore
the appearance of king Ariobarzanes having hired your consul to come and
commit murder, as if he were some Thracian. His very first arrival in
Syria was signalized by the
destruction of the cavalry; after that, all his best cohorts were cut to
pieces. Therefore, in Syria, since
he has been the commander-in-chief, nothing has been done beyond making
money-bargains with tyrants, and selling decisions, and committing robbery
and piracy and massacre; while the general of the Roman people, with his
army in battle array, stretching forth his right hand, did not exhort his
soldiers to the pursuit of glory, but only kept crying out that everything
had been bought by him and was to be bought still.
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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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