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Gifted with such natural endowments, Lucullus had also added the training which Themistocles had despised, and thus he kept facts engraved on his mind just as we enshrine in writing things that we desire to record. For he had a memory for facts that was positively inspired, although Hortensius had a better memory for words, but Lucullus's memory was the more valuable, inasmuch as in the conduct of business facts are of more assistance than words and this form of memory is recorded as having been present in a remarkable degree in Themistocles, whom we rank as easily the greatest man of Greece, and of whom the story is told that when somebody ** offered to impart to him the memoria technica that was then first coming into vogue, he replied that he would sooner learn to forget - no doubt this was because whatever he heard or saw remained fixed in his memory. ** Accordingly after spending the whole of his journey by land and sea partly in cross-questioning those who were experts and partly in reading military history, he arrived in Asia a made general, although he had started from Rome a tiro in military matters.
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** But intellectual gifts that even surpassed belief had no need of the unschooled training that is given by experience. Later the senate commissioned him to the war with Mithridates, ** in which he not only surpassed everybody's previous estimation of his valour but even the glory of his predecessors and this was the more remarkable because military distinction was not particularly anticipated from one who had spent his youth in practice at the bar, and the long period of his quaestorship peacefully in Asia, while Murena was carrying on the war in Pontus. For when as quite a youth, in co-operation with a brother possessed of equal filial affection and devotion, he had carried on with great distinction the personal feuds of his father, ** he went out as quaestor to Asia, and there for a great many years presided over the province with quite remarkable credit then in his absence he was elected aedile, and next praetor (since by a statutory grant ** this was permitted before the usual time) later he was appointed to Africa, and then to the consulship, which he so administered as to win universal admiration for his devotion to duty and universal recognition of his ability. L The great talents of Lucius Lucullus and his great devotion to the best sciences, with all his acquisitions in that liberal learning which becomes a person of high station, were entirely cut off from public life at Rome in the period when he might have won the greatest distinction at the bar. Click on the L symbols to go to the Latin text of each section. Click on ** to go to the translator's footnotes.
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