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I am well aware, too,
that there are laws which are not proposed with
a view to perpetuity, but are concerned with temporary honours or commands, such as the lex Manilia1
which is the subject of one of Cicero's speeches.
This however is not the place for instructions on
this topic, since they depend on the special circumstances of the matters under discussion, not on their
general characteristics.
1 The lex Manilia proposed to give Pompey the command against Mithridates.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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