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M. Tullius Cicero, On the Consular Provinces (ed. C. D. Yonge), chapter 14 (search)
Nature had previously protected Italy by the Alps,
not without some especial kindness of the gods in providing us with such a
bulwark. For if that road had been open to the savage disposition and vast
numbers of the Gauls, this city would never have been the home and chosen
seat of the empire of the world. Now, indeed, they are at liberty to sink
down if they please; for there is nothing beyond those lofty heights as far
as the ocean itself, which can be any object of fear to Italy. But still it will be the work of
one or two summers finally to bind the whole of Gaul in everlasting chains either by fear, or hope, or
punishment or reward, or arms, or laws. And if our affairs
there are left in an unfinished state, and while there is still some
b
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Piso (ed. C. D. Yonge), chapter 26 (search)
O thou darkness, thou filth, thou disgrace! O thou forgetful of your father's
family, scarcely mindful of your mother's,—there is actually
something so broken-down, so mean, so base, so sordid, even too low to be
considered worthy of the Milanese crier, your grandfather.
Lucius Crassus, the wisest man of our state, searched almost the whole
Alps with javelins to find out
some pretext for a triumph where there was no enemy. A man of the highest
genius, Caius Cotta, burnt with the same desire, though he could find no
regular enemy. Neither of them had a triumph, because his colleague deprived
one of that honour, and death prevented the other from enjoying it. A little
while ago, you derided Marcus Piso's desire for a triumph, from which you
M. Tullius Cicero, Against Piso (ed. C. D. Yonge), chapter 33 (search)