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Marcus Lepidus is desirous of peace. He does well especially if he can make such
a peace as he made lately, owing to which the republic will behold the son of
Cnaeus Pompeius, and will receive him in her bosom and embrace; and will think,
that not he alone, but that she also is restored to herself with him. This was
the reason why you decreed to him a statue in the rostra with an honorable
inscription, and why you voted him a triumph in his absence. For although he had
performed great exploits in war, and such as well deserved a triumph, still for
that he might not have had that given to him which was not given to Lucius
Aemilius, nor to Aemilianus Scipio, nor to the former Africanus, nor to Marius,
nor to Pompeius, who had the conduct of greater wars than he had, but because he
had put an end to a civil war in perfect silence, the first moment that it was
in his power, on that account you conferred on him the greatest honors.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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