And the whole Mithridatic war, great and difficult as
 it was, and carried on with so much diversity of fortune by land and sea, has been related at
 length by him; and the books in which that is sung of, not only make illustrious Lucius
 Lucullus, that most gallant and celebrated man, but they do honour also to the Roman people.
 For, while Lucullus was general, the Roman people opened Pontus, though it was defended both by
 the resources of the king and by the character of the country itself. Under the same general the
 army of the Roman people, with no very great numbers, routed the countless hosts of the
 Armenians. It is the glory of the Roman people that, by the wisdom of that same general, the
 city of the Cyzicenes, most friendly to us, was delivered and preserved from all the attacks of
 the kind, and from the very jaws as it were of the whole war. Ours is the glory which will be
 for ever celebrated, which is derived from the fleet of the enemy which was sunk after its
 admirals had been slain, and from the marvellous naval battle off Tenedos: those trophies belong
 to us, those monuments are ours, those triumphs are ours. Therefore, I say that the men by whose
 genius these exploits are celebrated, make illustrious at the same time the glory of the Roman
 people. Our countryman, Ennius, was dear to the elder
 Africanus; and even on the tomb of the Scipios his effigy is believed to be visible, carved in
 the marble. But undoubtedly it is not only the men who are themselves praised who are done
 honour to by those praises, but the name of the Roman people also is adorned by them. Cato, the
 ancestor of this Cato, is extolled to the skies. Great honour is paid to the exploits of the
 Roman people. Lastly, all those great men, the Maximi, the Marcelli, and the Fulvii, are done
 honour to, not without all of us having also a share in the panegyric. 
 Therefore our ancestors received the man who was the cause of all this, a man of Rudiae, into
 their city as a citizen; and shall we reject from our city a man of Heraclea, a man sought by
 many cities, and made a citizen of ours by these very laws?