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Lastly, when Cnaeus Pompeius himself, when first he delivered an address to the
people as consul elect, mentioned (what seemed above all things to be watched for)
that he would restore the power of the tribunes, a great shout was raised at his
words, and a grateful murmur pervaded the assembly. And when he had said also in the
same assembly “that the provinces were depopulated and tyrannised over,
that the courts of justice were become base and wicked, and that he desired to
provide for and to remedy that evil,” the Roman people then signified
their good will, not with a shout, but with a universal uproar.
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