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But yet if an account of them must be given, two qualities were particularly missed in the
praetorship, the existence of which in Murena now was of the greatest use to him in standing
for the consulship: one was the expectation of a largess, which had got abroad through some
rumour, and owing to the zeal and conversation of some of his competitors; the other, that
those men who had been witnesses of all his liberality and virtue in the province and in the
discharge of his office as lieutenant, had not yet left Rome. Fortune reserved each of these
advantages for him, to aid him in his application for the consulship. For the army of Lucius
Lucullus, which had come hither for his triumph, was also present at the comitia in aid of Lucius Murena, and his praetorship afforded a most splendid
proof of his liberality, of which there was no mention when he was standing for the
praetorship.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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