Cicero de Imperio- Chapter 30

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Testis est Italia, quam ille ipse victor L. Sulla huius virtute et subsidio confessus est liberatam:

Italy as a witness, which that conqueror himself, Lucius Sulla, confessed had been set free by this man's virtue and support:

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testis est Sicilia, quam multis undique cinctam periculis non terrore belli, sed consilii celeritate explicavit:

Sicily is a witness, which, when it was surrounded by all sides by many dangers, he released not by the terror of war but by the speed of his planning:

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testis est Africa,

Africa is a witness,

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quae magnis oppressa hostium copiis eorum ipsorum sanguine redundavit:

which, when it was oppressed by large enemy forces, overflowed with the blood of those men themselves:

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testis est Gallia,

Gaul is a witness,

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per quam legionibus nostris eter in Hispaniam Gallorum internicione patefactum est:

through which a route into Spain was laid open for our legions by the massacre of the Gauls:

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testis est Hispania, quae saepissime plurimos hostes ab hoc superatos postratosque conspexit:

Spain is a witness, which very often saw very many enemies overcome and crushed by this man:

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testis est iterum et saepuis Italia, quae cum servili bello taetro periculosque premeretur, ab hoc auxilium expetivit,

again and more often, Italy is a witness, which, asked for help from this man, though he was far away, when it was being pressed by the foul and dangerous slave war,

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quod bellum expectatione euis attenuatam atque imminutum est,

a war which by the anticipation of him was weakened and diminished,

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adventu sublatum ac sepultum.

[and which] by his arrival was removed and buried.

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testis est Sicilia, quam multis undique cinctam periculis non terrore belli, sed consilii celeritate explicavit:

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Sicily is a witness, which, when it was surrounded by all sides by many dangers, he released not by the terror of war but by the speed of his planning:

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testis est Africa,

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Card 4

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quae magnis oppressa hostium copiis eorum ipsorum sanguine redundavit:

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Card 5

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testis est Gallia,

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Cicero de Imperio- Chapter 30