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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
We are consulted to day about matters of small importance, but still perhaps
necessary, O conscript fathers. The consul submits a motion to us about the
Appian road and about the coinage; the tribune of the people one about the
Luperci. And although it seems easy to settle such matters as those, still my
mind can not fix itself on such subjects, being anxious about more important
matters. For our affairs, O conscript fathers, are come to a crisis, and are in
a state of almost extreme danger. It is not without reason that I have always
feared and never approved of that sending of ambassadors. And what their return
is to bring us I know not; but who is there who does not see with how much
languor the expectation of it infects our minds? For those men put no restraint
on themselves who knew that the senate has revived so as to entertain hopes of
its former authority, and that the Roman people is united to this our order;
that all Italy is animated by one
common feeling; that armies are prepared, and generals ready for the armies;
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