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By means of the same partners in his injuries,
and thefts, and bribes, during his command the festival of Marcellus at Syracuse is abolished, to the great grief of
the city;—a festival which they both gladly paid as due to the recent
services done them by Caius Marcellus, and also most gladly gave to the family and
name and race of the Marcelli. Mithridates in Asia, when he had occupied the whole of that province, did not
abolish the festival of Mucius. 1 An enemy, and he too an enemy in
other respects, only too savage and barbarous, still would not violate the honour of
a name which had been consecrated by holy ceremonies. You forbade the Syracusans to
grant one day of festival to the Marcelli, to whom they owed the being able to
celebrate other days of festival.
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1 In honour of Quintus Mucius Scaevola, who had been praetor in that province, and had established a high character for lenity and incorruptibility.
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