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We have been assembled at length, O conscript fathers, altogether later than the
necessities of the republic required, but still we are assembled, a measure
which I indeed have been every day demanding, inasmuch as I saw that a nefarious
war against our altars and our hearths, against our lives and our fortunes,
wars, I will not say being prepared but being actually waged by a profligate and
desperate man. People are waiting for the first of January. But Antonius is not
waiting for that day, who is now attempting with an army to invade the province
of Decimus Brutus a most illustrious and excellent man. And when he has procured
reinforcements and equipments there, he threatens that he will come to this
city.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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