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For that gulf of all things—that
glutton, born for his own belly, not for glory or renown,—when he
had deprived the Roman knights in his province; when be had deprived the
farmers of the revenue, men united to us by mutual goodwill and in
dignity;—when he had deprived, I say, all of them of their
fortunes, many of them of their franchises and of their lives; when with
that mighty army he had done nothing except plunder the cities, lay waste
the lands, and drain the private houses of his province, dared (for what
will he not dare?) to send letters at last to the senate to demand a
supplication!
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