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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
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And although it is not possible to requite him with all the thanks to which he is
entitled, still we ought to feel all the gratitude toward him which our minds
are capable of conceiving. For who is so ignorant of public affairs, so entirely
indifferent to all thoughts of the republic, as not to see that, if Marcus
Antonius could have come with those forces which he made sure that he should
have, from Brundusium to come,
as he threatened, there would have been no description of cruelty which he would
not have practiced? A man who in the house of his entertainer at Brundusium ordered so many most gallant
men and virtuous citizens to be murdered, and whose wife's face was notoriously
besprinkled with the blood of men dying at his and her feet. Who is there of us,
or what good man is there at all, whom a man stained with this barbarity would
ever have spared; especially as he was coming hither much more angry with all
virtuous men than he had been with those whom he had massacred there?
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