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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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Oh the monstrous impudence of
such a proceeding! What had you seen? what had you perceived? what had you
heard? For you did not say that you had been observing the heavens, and indeed
you do not say so this day. That defect then has arisen, which you on the first
of January had already foreseen would arise, and which you had predicted so long
before. Therefore, in truth, you have made a false declaration respecting the
auspices, to your own great misfortune, I hope, rather than to that of the
republic. You laid the Roman people under the obligations of religion; you as
augurs interrupted an augur; you as consul interrupted a consul by a false
declaration concerning the auspices.
I will say no more, lest I should seem to be pulling to pieces the acts of
Dolabella; which must inevitably sometime or other be brought before our
college.
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