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25But what modest commands they are! We must be ironhearted men, O conscript fathers, to deny anything to this man! “I give up both provinces,” says he; “I disband my army; I am willing to become a private individual.” For these are his very words. He seems to be coming to himself. “I am willing to forget everything; to be reconciled to everybody.” But what does he add? “If you give booty and land to my six legions, to my cavalry, and to my prætorian cohort.” He even demands rewards for those men for whom, if he were to demand pardon, he would be thought the most impudent of men. He adds further, “Those men to whom the lands have been given which he himself and Dolabella distributed, are to retain them.”
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