Iam vero exercitus noster ille superbissimo dilectu et durissima conquisitione collectus omnis interiit. Magno hoc dico cum dolore.
(DE PROVINCIIS CONSVLARIBVS)Cicero
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At ego idem nunc in provinciis decernendis, qui illas omnes res egi silentio, interpellor, cum in superioribus causis hominis ornamenta fuerint, in hac me nihil aliud nisi ratio belli, nisi summa utilitas rei publicae moveat. Nam ipse Caesar quid est cur in provincia commorari velit, nisi ut ea, quae per eum adfecta sunt, perfecta rei publicae tradat? Amoenitas eum, credo, locorum, urbium pulchritudo, hominum nationumque illarum humanitas et lepos, victoriae cupiditas, finium imperii propagatio retinet. ************************************************************ ****"Now, however, when it is a question of assigning provinces, whereas I was allowed to discuss all these matters in silence, I find myself interrupted! Although these former proposals concerned honours to be conferred on Caesar nothing else now moves me except military considerations and the supreme interest of the state...For what reason is there why Caesar should himself linger in this province, save that he should hand over to the State fully accomplished a work on which he is engaged? I suppose it is the pleasantness of the country, the beauty of the cities, the culture and refinement of the inhabitants and peoples, the desire for victory, the extension of the boundaries of our empire, that detain him!~M. TVLLIVS CICERO
WERE I A COWARD, I'd Sail AWAY, Turn my BACK on the LOT of you. An Ungrateful Rome, which would rather see THE DEATH of ME! Petty men who wish My Head and HANDS NAILED above the GATES.Audebo etiam hoc contendere, numquam esse condemnatum, quem constaret ab imperatore nostro civitate donatum.PRO BALBO~Cicero
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