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He submitted to
the authority of a most distinguished man, or, I should rather say, he
obeyed him. He went off at the same time with those men who were already
embarked in the same cause, but he made us journey slower than they.
Therefore, he arrived in Africa when it was already occupied; and from this
it is that the charge against Ligarius, or rather the enmity against him,
has its rise. For if it be a crime in him to have wished to hinder you, it
is a no less serious one for you to have wished to obtain Africa, the
citadel of all the provinces, a land created for the purpose of waging war
against this city, than for somebody else to have preferred obtaining it
himself,—and that somebody was not Ligarius. Varus kept saying,
that he had the command there; the fasces he
certainly had.
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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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