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legions and give up his promised for while office if Pompey would also do the same the latter bore arms it was not right, he claimed, that he should be compelled to give up his and so be The vote on this proexposed to his enemies. position was not taken individually, lest the senators through some sense of shame or fear should vote but it was done contrary to their true opinions their on their stand this or on that side taking by of tlie senate-chamber. No one voted that Pompey should give up his arms, since he had his troops in the suburbs but all, except one Marcus Caelius and Curio, who had brought his letter, voted that Caesar must do so. Of the tribunes I make no mention, since they did not consider it at all necessary to take part in the division for they had to disband his

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BOOK XLI simulating weakness^ tliey claim the right to lord it over their rulers and to tyrannize over their leaders ? VVhv, I had a thousand times rather be reconciled with Pompey on any terms whatever or suffer any other conceivable fate than do anything unworthy of the proud traditions of my fathers,, or of my own principles. Or are you not aware that it is not sovereignty or gain that I desire, and that I am not so bent upon accomplishing any thing by every means at whatever cost and that I would lie and flatter

and fawn upon people to this end? Give up your O what can I call you ? service, therefore, you Yet still it shall be, not as you yourselves desire and say, but as is profitable for the republic and

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speech he distributed lots among them death penalty, and executed the most audacious for these, as he had arranged should be the case, drew the lots. The rest he had no further need of dismissed, saying he them. for the infliction of the ;

So they repented of what they had done and were ready to renew the campaign. While he was still on the way Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, the man

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later became a member of the triumvirate, advised the people in his capacity of praetor to elect Caesar dictator, and immediately named him, contrary to ancestral custom. The latter accepted the office as soon as he entered the city, but committed no act of terror while holding it. On the contrary, he a return all to the exiles granted except Milo, and filled the offices for the ensuing year for up to that time they had chosen no one temporarily in place of ;

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