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Why did you keep crying out that ten
thousand talents had been promised to Gabinius? I suppose it was necessary
to find out a very civil man indeed, who should be able to prevail on one
whom you call the most avaricious of men, not to despise immoderately two
hundred and forty millions of sesterces. Whatever may have been the
intention with which Gabinius acted, it certainly was his own unsuggested
intention. Whatever sort of idea it was, it was Gabinius's own. Whether, as
he said himself his object was glory, or whether, as you insist, it was
money, it was for himself that he sought it. Had Gabinius any companion or
attendant? He says, no. For he had departed from Rome in deference to the
authority, not of Gabinius, whose business it was not but of Publius
Lentulus, a most illustrious man, given to him by the senate, and with a
definite design, and with very sanguine hopes.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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