For how can we rank a man
 among generals of any class at all, if centurionships The Scholiast says
 that Cicero is here hinting at Glabrio the consul, or at the younger Marius. are sold,
 and have been constantly sold in his army? What great or honourable thoughts can we suppose that
 that man cherishes concerning the republic, who has either distributed the money which was taken
 from the treasury for the conduct of the war among the magistrates, out of ambition Lucullus is supposed to be meant here as it is said that he had employed large
 sums in soliciting the votes of influential men, so as to be left in command of the province of
 Asia , in which he had amassed enormous riches. 
 to keep his province, or, out of avarice, has left it behind him at Rome , invested for his own advantage? Your murmurs show, O
 Romans, that you recognise, in my description, men who have done these things. But I name no
 one, so that no one can be angry with me, without making confession beforehand of his own
 malpractices. But who is there who is ignorant what terrible distresses our armies suffer
 wherever they go, through this covetousness of our generals?