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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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But we were caught by this expression of Quintus Fufius;
“Shall we not listen to Antonius even if he retires from Mutina? Shall we not, even if he declares
that he will submit himself to the authority of the senate?” It seemed
harsh to say that. Thus it was that we were broken; we yielded. Does he then
retire from Mutina? “I
don't know.” Is he obeying the senate? “I think
so,” says Calenus, “but so as to preserve his own dignity at
the same time.” You then, O conscript fathers, are to make great
exertions for the express purpose of losing your own dignity, which is very
great, and of preserving that of Antonius, which neither has nor can have any
existence; and of enabling him to recover that by your conduct, which he has
lost by his own.
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