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and Sextus
Pompeius Magnus, the son of Cnaeus, having submitted to the authority of this
order and laid down his arms, and, in accordance with the perfect good-will of
the senate and people of Rome, has
been restored to the state by Marcus Lepidus, imperator, and Pontifex Maximus; the senate and people of
Rome, in return for the important
and numerous services of Marcus Lepidus to the republic, declares that it places
great hopes of future tranquillity and peace and concord, in his virtue,
authority, and good fortune; and the senate and people of Rome will ever remember his services to the
republic; and it is decreed by the vote of this order, that a gilt equestrian
statue be erected to him in the Rostra, or in whatever other place in the forum
he pleases.”
And this honor, O conscript fathers, appears to me a very great one, in the first
place, because it is just;—for it is not merely given on account of
our hopes of the future, but it is paid, as it were, in requital of his ample
services already done. Nor are we able to mention any instance of this honor
having been conferred on any one by the senate by their own free and voluntary
judgment before.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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