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6.
Can you deny this, when you interpose every sort of delay calculated to weaken
Brutus, and to improve the position of Antonius? For how long will you keep on
saying that you are desirous of peace? Matters are progressing rapidly; the
works have been carried on; severe battles are taking place. We sent three chief
men of the city to interpose. Antonius has despised, rejected, and repudiated
them. And still you continue a persevering defender of Antonius.
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And Calenus, indeed, in order that he may appear a
more conscientious senator, says that he ought not to be a friend to him; since,
though Antonius was under great obligations to him, he still had acted against
him. See how great is his affection for his country.
When you are so bitter, O Quintus Fufius, against the people of Marseilles, I can not listen to you with
calmness. For how long are you going to attack Marseilles? Does not even a triumph put an end to the war? in
which was carried an image of that city, without whose assistance our
forefathers never triumphed over the Transalpine nations. Then, indeed, did the
Roman people groan. Although they had their own private griefs because of their
own affairs, still there was no citizen who thought the miseries of this most
loyal city unconnected with himself.
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Caesar
himself, who had been the most angry of all men with them, still, on account of
the unusually high character and loyalty of that city, was every day relaxing
something of his displeasure And is there no extent of calamity by which so
faithful a city can satiate you? Again, perhaps, you will say that I am losing
my temper. But I am speaking without passion, as I always do, though not without
great indignation. I think that no man can be an enemy to that city, who is a
friend to this one. What your object is, O Calenus, I can not imagine. Formerly
we were unable to deter you from devoting yourself to the gratification of the
people; now we are unable to prevail on you to show any regard for their
interests. I have argued long enough with Fufius, saying everything without
hatred, but nothing without indignation. I suppose that a man who can bear the
complaint of his son-in-law with indifference, will bear that of his friend with
great equanimity.
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