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It was the same time, when all Asia shut
its gates against Lucius Flaccus, the consul, and not only received that Cappadocian into
their cities, but even spontaneously invited him. Let us be allowed, if not to forget these
things, at least to be silent respecting them. Let me be allowed rather to
complain of the inconstancy of the Greeks than of their cruelty. Are these two men to have
influence with a people which they wished utterly to destroy? For whomsoever they could they
slew while in the garb of peace; as far as depended on them they annihilated the name of Roman
citizens.
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