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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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A few days afterwards the senate was delivered from
the danger of bloodshed, and a hook1was fixed into
that runaway slave who had usurped the name of Caius Marius. And all these
things he did in concert with his colleague. Some other things that were done
were the acts of Dolabella alone; but if his colleague had not been absent,
would, I believe, have been done by both of them in concert.
For when enormous evil was insinuating itself into the republic, and was gaining
more strength day by day; and when the same men were erecting a tomb2in the forum, who had performed that irregular
funeral; and when abandoned men, with slaves like themselves, were every day
threatening with more and more vehemence all the houses and temples of the city;
so severe was the rigour of Dolabella, not only towards the
audacious and wicked slaves, but also towards the profligate and unprincipled
freemen, and so prompt was his overthrow of that accursed pillar; that it seems
marvellous to me that the subsequent time has been so different from that one
day.
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