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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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Am
I to receive commands from a man who despises the commands of the senate? Or am
I to think that he has any thing in common with the senate, who besieges a
general of the Roman people in spite of the prohibition of the senate? But what
commands they are! With what arrogance, with what stupidity, with what insolence
are they conceived! But what made him charge our ambassadors with them when he
was sending Cotyla to us, the ornament and bulwark of his friends, a man of
aedilitian rank? if, indeed, he really was an aedile at the time when the public
slaves flogged him with thongs at a banquet by command of Antonius.
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