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Egyptian dynastic struggle, which promised huge financial rewards and prestige for any prospective commander. Spinther, with his colleague Nepos, were successful in
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with three legions in the early months of the war but was besieged and the two consulars – along with
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prohibited the use of an army. Cicero, in a debate in the senate on 13 January 56 BC, supported
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