But here this
 admirable man excepts Cnaeus Pompeius, whom he is so fond of. Whence does this affection so
 sudden and previously unknown originate? for he is excluded from the honour of the decemvirate
 almost by name; his power of deciding judicially, of giving laws, or of making any formal
 inquiry respecting the lands which have been taken by his your, is taken from him; decemvirs
 are sent not only into his province but into his very camp, with military authority, with
 immense sums of money, with unlimited power, and with a right of deciding on everything. His
 rights as a general, which have hitherto always been most jealously preserved to every general
 are for the first time taken from him. But he is excepted as the only one who is not bound to
 make a return of his booty. Does it seem that the real object of this clause is to do honour to
 the man, or to excite a feeling of unpopularity against him? Cnaeus Pompeius will make a present of this to Rullus. He has no desire to avail himself of
 that kindness of the law, and of the good-nature of the decemvirs. For if it be just for
 generals not to devote their spoils and booty either to monuments of the immortal gods, or to
 the decorations of the city,—but if they are to carry it all to the decemvirs as their
 masters,—then Pompeius wishes for nothing particular for himself; nothing. He wishes to live
 under the common law, under the same law as the rest. If it be unjust, O Romans—if it be
 shameful, if it be intolerable for these decemvirs to be appointed as comptrollers of all the
 money collected by every body, and as plunderers not only of foreign kings and citizens of
 foreign nations, but of even our own generals, then they do not seem to me to have excepted
 Pompeius for the sake of doing him honour, but to be afraid that he may not be able to put up
 with the same insult as the rest.