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And so, when foreign nations had been oppressed
and ruined, we have seen a model of Marseilles carried
in a triumphal procession, to serve as proof to the world
that the supremacy of the people had been forfeited;
and that triumph we saw celebrated over a city without whose help our generals have never gained a
triumph for their wars beyond the Alps. I might
mention many other outrages against our allies, if
the sun had ever beheld anything more infamous
than this particular one. Justly, therefore, are1
we being punished. For if we had not allowed the
crimes of many to go unpunished, so great licence
would never have centred in one individual. His
estate descended by inheritance to but a few individuals, his ambitions to many scoundrels.
1 The wages of the sin of Rome
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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