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The whole then of the contest, O Romans, which is now before the Roman people,
the conqueror of all nations, is with an assassin, a robber, a Spartacus.1 For as to his habitual boast of being like Catilina, he
is equal to him in wickedness, but inferior in energy. He, though he had no
army, rapidly levied one. This man has lost that very army which he had. As,
therefore, by my diligence, and the authority of the senate, and your own zeal
and valor, you crushed Catilina, so you will very soon hear that this infamous
piratical enterprise of Antonius has been put down by your own perfect and
unexampled harmony with the senate, and by the good fortune and valor of your
armies and generals.
1 Spartacus was the general of the gladiators and slaves in the Servile war.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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