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If that be his return for my speeches on his behalf" the Anteponatur omnibus Pompeius, for instance "I will play him such a turn of another kind that he shall remember it." He begins to know what the "Triumvirate" is doing with the Republic, but has not yet brought himself to suspect the blow that is to fall on himself.
Cicero had praised Pompey with all the eloquence in his power. "Anteponatur omnibus Pompeius," he had said, in the last Catiline oration to the Senate; and Pompey, though he had not heard the words spoken, knew very well what had been said. Such oratory was never lost upon those whom it most concerned the orator to make acquainted with it.
When in the last Catiline oration to the people he speaks of the great men of the Republic of the two Scipios, and of Paulus Æmilius and of Marius he adds the name of Pompey to these names; or gives, rather, to Pompey greater glory than to any of them; "Anteponatur omnibus Pompeius."
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