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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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Nor (since now after a long interval we are allowed to speak concerning the
republic) is it possible for us to be silent about the Martial legion. For what
single man has ever been braver, what single man has ever been more devoted to
the republic than the whole of the Martial legion? which, as soon as it had
decided that Marcus Antonius was an enemy of the Roman people, refused to be a
companion of his insanity; deserted him though consul; which, in truth, it would
not have done if it had considered him as consul, who, as it saw, was aiming at
nothing and preparing nothing but the slaughter of the citizens, and the
destruction of the state. And that legion has encamped at Alba. What city could
it have selected either more suitable for enabling it to act, or more faithful,
or full of more gallant men, or of citizens more devoted to the republic?
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