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.