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Am I to wait while seventy-five voting tablets are distributed in your case;
when all men of all classes and ages and ranks of society have long since
formed their opinions concerning you? For who is there who thinks you
deserving of a visit; or of any compliment or even of an ordinary
salutation? All men wish to efface all recollection of your consulship, to
extirpate your conduct, your habits, your very appearance and name from the
republic. The lieutenants who were with you are alienated from you, the
military tribunes are hostile to you; the centurions and any other soldiers
who may be left out of that once numerous army, and who were not disbanded
by you but scattered abroad, hate you, wish for calamities to befall you,
execrate you. Achaia which has been drained by you, Thessaly which has been
harassed by you, Athens which has been plundered by you, Dyrrachium and
Apollonia which have been completely emptied by you, Ambracia which has been
pillaged by you, the Parthinians and Bulliensians who have been mocked by
you, Epirus which has been laid waste by you, the Locrians, the Phocians,
the Boeotians whom you have ravaged with fire and sword, Acarnania,
Amphilochia, Perrhaebia, and the nation of the Athamanes who have been sold
by you, Macedonia which has been sacrificed by you to the barbarians,
Aetolia which has been lost, the Dolopians and the neighbouring mountaineers
who have been driven from their towns and from their lands, the Roman
citizens who have dealings as merchants in those countries,—all
feel that you came among them as their chief despoiler, and harasser, and
robber, and enemy.
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