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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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On this a
statue was given to him by our ancestors as a recompense for his life, which
might ennoble his progeny for many years, and which is now the only memorial
left of so illustrious a family. But in his case, and in that of Tullus
Cluvius,1 and Lucius Roscius, and Spurius Antius, and Caius Fulcinius,
who were slain by the king of Veii, it
was not the blood that was shed at their death, but the death itself which was
encountered in the service of the republic, which was the cause of their being
thus honored.
1 There is some corruption of the text here.
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