[37]
Compare, now, my fine Epicurus, brought forward out of his sty, not out of
his school,—compare, if you dare, your absence with mine. You
obtained a consular province with no other limitations than those which the
law of your covetousness, not the law of your son-in-law, had agreed upon.
For by that most just and admirable law of Caesar free nations were really
and truly free; but by that law which no one except you and your colleague
considered a law at all, all Achaia, and Thessaly,
and Athens,—in short
the whole of Greece, was made over
to you. You had an army, not of that strength which the senate or people of
Rome had assigned to you, but
such as your own lust had prompted you to enlist. You had entirely drained
the treasury.
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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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