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For to say nothing of former speeches of yours, at all events. I can not pass
over in silence this which excites my most especial wonder. What war is there
between you and the Bruti? Why do you alone attack those men whom we are all
bound almost to worship? Why are you not indignant at one of them being
besieged, and why do you—as far as your vote goes—strip the
other of those troops which by his own exertions and by his own danger he has
got together by himself, without any one to assist him, for the protection of
the republic, not for himself? What is your meaning in this? What are your
intentions? Is it possible that you should not approve of the Bruti, and should
approve of Antonius? that you should hate those men whom every one else
considers most dear? and that you should love with the greatest constancy those
whom every one else hates most bitterly? You have a most ample fortune; you are
in the highest rank of honor; your son, as I both hear and hope, is born to
glory,—a youth whom I favor not only for the sake of the republic, but
for your sake also.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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