In it Cicero refutes, as the fragments clearly show, the assertion of Crassus, that Egypt had been rendered Roman property by the testament of king Alexander.

This question of law might and must have been discussed in 689; but in 698 it had been deprived of its significance through the Julian law of 695.

In 698 moreover the discussion related not to the question to whom Egypt belonged, but to the restoration of the king driven out by a revolt, and in this transaction which is well known to us Crassus played no part.
Lastly, Cicero after the conference of Luca was not at all in a position seriously to oppose one of the triumvirs.
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V.IV.Pompeius Proceeds to Colchis 12.

V.III.Attacks on the Senatorial Tribunals, V.III.