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Scipio's Speech Continued
"Nor again can it have been any dissatisfaction with
the position of affairs. For when was any prosperity greater?
When has Rome won more victories, when have her arms
had brighter prospects than now? But perhaps some faint-heart will say that
our enemies have more numerous advantages, fairer and more certain prospects than ourselves.
Which, pray, of these enemies? Is it Andobales and
Mandonius? But which of you is ignorant of the fact that
these men first betrayed the in front of them,—men of whom I will not deign
to say even another word. All this, my men, is absolutely
futile; nor will you be able to allege even the smallest just
complaint against me or your country. Wherefore I will
undertake your defence to Rome and myself, by putting forward a plea which all the world will acknowledge to hold good.
And it is that, a crowd is ever easily misled and easily induced
to any error. Therefore it is that crowds are like the sea,
which in its own nature is safe a