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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
THE THIRTEENTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE THIRTEENTH PHILIPPIC.
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Therefore, as we are bound to vote, and as Servilius has already proposed a most
just supplication for those letters which have been read to you; I will propose
altogether to increase the number of the days which it is to last, especially as
it is to be decreed in honor of three generals conjointly. But first of all I
will insist on styling those men imperator by whose
valor, and wisdom, and good fortune we have been released from the most imminent
danger of slavery and death. Indeed, who is there within the last twenty years
who has had a supplication decreed to him without being himself styled imperator, though he may have performed the most
insignificant exploits, or even almost none at all. Wherefore, the senator who
spoke before me ought either not to have moved for a supplication at all, or he
ought to have paid the usual and established compliment to those men to whom
even new and extraordinary honors are justly due.
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