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At the very time of this misfortune,—of this
most terrible disaster in the whole war, Lucius Lucullus, who might have been able, to a great
extent, to remedy the calamity, being compelled by your orders, because you thought, according
to the old principle of your ancestors, that limits ought to be put to length of command,
discharged a part of his soldiers who had served their appointed time, and delivered over part
to Glabrio. I pass over many things designedly; but you yourselves can easily conjecture how
important you ought to consider that war which most powerful kings are uniting
in,—which disturbed nations are renewing,—which nations, whose strength is
unimpaired, are undertaking, and which anew general of yours has to encounter after a veteran
army has been defeated.
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