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Were any exiles
restored? He said that one was, and only one. Were any immunities granted? He
answered, None. He wished us even to adopt the proposition of Servius Sulpicius,
that most illustrious man, that no tablet purporting to contain any
decree or grant of Caesar's should be published after the Ides of March were
expired. I pass over many other things, all excellent—for I am
hastening to come to a very extraordinary act of virtue of Marcus Antonius. He
utterly abolished from the constitution of the republic the Dictatorship, which
had by this time attained to the authority of regal power. And that measure was
not even offered to us for discussion. He brought with him a decree of the
senate, ready drawn up, ordering what he chose to have done: and when it had
been read, we all submitted to his authority in the matter with the greatest
eagerness; and, by another resolution of the senate, we returned him thanks in
the most honourable and complimentary language.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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