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And since this is the case,
“As Caius Pansa the consul has addressed to us a speech concerning the
letters which have been received from Quintus Caepio Brutus,1 proconsul, and have been read in this
assembly, I give my vote in this matter thus:
“Since, by the exertions and wisdom and industry and valor of Quintus
Caepio Brutus, proconsul, at a most critical period of the republic, the
province of Macedonia, and Illyricum, and all Greece, and the legions and armies and
cavalry, have been preserved in obedience to the consuls and senate and people
of Rome; Quintus Caepio Brutus,
proconsul, has acted well, and in a manner advantageous to the republic, and
suitable to his own dignity and to that of his ancestors, and to the principles
according to which alone the affairs of the republic can be properly managed;
and that conduct is and will be grateful to the senate and people of Rome.
1 Brutus had been adopted by his maternal uncle Quintus Servilius Caepio; so that his legal designation was what is given in the text now, as Cicero is proposing a formal vote—though at all other times we see that he calls him Marcus Brutus.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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