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What? do
you deny that rank was dispensed by your slaves? What? do you deny that
during all the years pay was furnished to your troops by the cities of the
province, the months for which each city was to find the money being openly
settled? What? have you forgotten that journey of yours into Pontus and your attempts there? have you
forgotten your prostration and abjectness of mind when news was brought to
you that Macedonia was made
praetorian province, and when you fell down fainting a half dead, not only
because your successor was appointed, but also that Gabinius's was not?
****1 Did you not send away a quaestor of aedilitian rank? Was not every one of the most virtuous of your lieutenants insulted by you? Did you not refuse to receive the military tribunes? Was not Marcus Baebius, a brave man, murdered by your commands?
****1 Did you not send away a quaestor of aedilitian rank? Was not every one of the most virtuous of your lieutenants insulted by you? Did you not refuse to receive the military tribunes? Was not Marcus Baebius, a brave man, murdered by your commands?