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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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Is not this, too, to be marked with the deepest ignominy, and with the severest
animadversion of this order, so as to be recollected by all posterity, that
Marcus Antonius. (the first man who has ever done so since the foundation of the
city) has openly taken armed men about with him in this city? A thing which the
kings never did, nor those men who, since the kings have been banished, have
endeavored to seize on kingly power. I can recollect Cinna; I have seen Sulla;
and lately Caesar. For these three men are the only ones since the city was
delivered by Lucius Brutus, who have had more power than the entire republic. I
can not assert that no man in their trains had weapons.
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