Nor does the insult consist solely in this, though this is very preposterous,
 and very unprecedented, that anything which has been acquired in war, while the general is
 still carrying on the war, should be sold, or even let. But these men have something more in
 view than mere insult. They hope, if it is allowed to the enemies of Cnaeus Pompeius, not only
 to stroll about other countries, but even to come to his very army with absolute authority,
 with a power of sitting as judges in every case, with boundless power, and with countless sums
 of money, that some plot may be laid against him himself; and that something may be taken from
 his army, or power, or renown. They think that, if the army reposes any hope in Cnaeus Pompeius
 with respect to either lands, or any other advantages, it will do so no longer when it sees
 that the supreme power in all those matters is transferred to the decemvirs. I am not concerned at those men being so foolish, as to hope for these
 things; and so impudent, as to attempt to cause them. What I do complain of is, that I am so
 much despised by them, that they should select the period of my consulship, of all times in the
 world, for seeking to bring about such prodigious absurdities. 
 And in the sale of all these lands and houses leave is given to the decemvirs “to hold their
 sales in whatever places they think fit.” Oh their perverted senses! Oh their licentiousness,
 so necessary to be checked! Oh their profligate and wicked intentions! 
 It is not lawful to let the revenues anywhere except in this city, in this very spot, in the
 presence of this assembly here present. Shall it be lawful for your own property to be sold and
 alienated from you for ever in the darkness or Paphlagonia , or in the deserts of Cappadocia ?