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now you are still threatening that city. I wish you would try, and we should not
then be forced to say “barely.” However, what a splendid
progress of yours that was! Why need I mention your preparations for banquets,
why your frantic hard drinking? Those things are only an injury to yourself;
these are injuries to us. We thought that a great blow was inflicted on the
republic when the Campanian district was released from the payment of taxes, in
order to be given to the soldiery; but you have divided it among your partners
in drunkenness and gambling. I tell you, O conscript fathers, that a lot of
buffoons and actresses have been settled in the district of Campania. Why should I now complain of what
has been done in the district of Leontini? Although formerly these lands of
Campania and Leontini were
considered part of the patrimony of the Roman people, and were productive of
great revenue, and very fertile. You gave your physician three thousand acres;
what would you have done if he had cured you? and two thousand to your master of
oratory; what would you have done if he had been able to make you eloquent?
However, let us return to your progress, and to Italy.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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