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And since you have at all times been covetous of glory and greedy of praise beyond all other
nations, you have to wipe out that stain, received in the former Mithridates War, which has
now fixed itself deeply and eaten its way into the Roman name, the stain arising from the fact
that he, who in one day marked down by one order, and one single letter, all the Roman
citizens in all Asia, scattered as they were over so
many cities, for slaughter and butchery, has not only never yet suffered any chastisement
worthy of his wickedness, but now, twenty-three years after that time, is still a king, and a
king in such a way that he is not content to hide himself in Pontus, or in the recesses of Cappadocia, but he seeks to emerge from his hereditary kingdom, and to range
among your revenues, in the broad light of Asia.
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