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and as the senate has voted that Publius Dolabella shall be pursued with war, in
order that he who has violated all laws of men and gods by a new and unheard of
and inexpiable wickedness, and has committed the most infamous treason against
his country, may suffer the punishment which is his due, and which he has well
deserved at the hands of gods and men; the senate decrees that Caius Cassius,
proconsul, shall have the government of Syria as one appointed to that province with all due form; and
that he shall receive their armies from Quintus Marcius Crispus, proconsul, from
Lucius Statius Marcus, proconsul, from Aulus Allienus, lieutenant, and that they
shall deliver them up to him; and that he, with these troops and with any more
which he may have got from other quarters, shall pursue Dolabella with war both
by sea and land; that, for the sake of carrying on war, he shall have authority
and power to buy ships, and sailors, and money, and whatever else may be
necessary or useful for the carrying on of the war, in whatever places it seems
fitting to him to do so, throughout Syria, Asia,
Bithynia, and Pontus; and that, in whatever province he
shall arrive for the purpose of carrying on that war, in that province as soon
as Caius Cassius, proconsul, shall arrive in it, the power of Caius Cassius,
proconsul, shall be superior to that of him who may be the regular governor of
the province at the time.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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