M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 30

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[30] Italy is my witness, which that illustrious conqueror himself, Lucius Sulla, confessed had been delivered by this man's valour and ready assistance. Sicily is my witness, which he released when it was surrounded on all sides by many dangers, not by the dread of his power, but by the promptitude of his wisdom. Africa is my witness, which, having been overwhelmed by numerous armies of enemies, overflowed with the blood of those same enemies. Gaul is my witness, through which a road into Spain was laid open to our legions by the destruction of the Gauls. Spain is my witness, which has repeatedly seen our many enemies there defeated and subdued by this man. Again and again, Italy is my witness, which, when it was weighed down by the disgraceful and perilous servile war, entreated aid from this man, though he, was at a distance; and that war, having dwindled down and wasted away at the expectation of Pompeius, was destroyed and buried by his arrival.

De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites. M. Tullius Cicero. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). London. 1856.

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In Defense of the Proposed Manilian Law (English) (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.)

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites Perseus (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.) — 30 focus

[30] Sulla huius virtute et¹ subsidio confessus est liberatam; testis² Sicilia quam multis undique cinctam periculis non terrore belli sed consili celeritate explicavit; testis Africa quae magnis oppressa hostium copiis eorum ipsorum sanguine redundavit; testis Gallia per quam legionibus nostris iter in Hispaniam³ Gallorum internicione patefactum est; testis Hispania quae saepissime plurimos hostis ab hoc superatos prostratosque conspexit; testis iterum et saepius Italia quae, cum servili bello taetro periculosoque premeretur, ab hoc auxilium absente expetivit, quod bellum exspectatione eius attenuatum atque imminutum est, adventu sublatum ac sepultum.

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Notes on The Manilian Law (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

testis est , etc. the enumeration corresponds to that in sect. 28 , ll. 12-14, above ( Civile, Africanum, etc.).

Gallia : this refers to certain hostilities in Gaul when Pompey was on his way to Spain to the war against Sertorius ( B.C. 77); these are referred to as bellum Transalpinum in sect. 28 .

Hispania : in the war with Sertorius (see, however, note on p. 71, l. 5 ).

iterum : Pompey, on his way back from Spain ( B.C. 71), fell in with the remnants of the troops of Spartacus and cut them to pieces in Cisalpine Gaul; but the whole passage is a rhetorical exaggeration.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 30

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