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What can be more foul than that
beast? what more savage? who appears born for the express purpose of preventing
Marcus Antonius from being the basest of all mortals. They have with them
Trebellius, who, now that all debts are canceled, is become reconciled to them;
and Titus Plancus, and other like them; who are striving with all their hearts,
and whose sole object is to appear to have been restored against the will of the
republic. Saxa and Capho, themselves rustic and clownish men, men who never have
seen and who never wish to see this republic firmly established, are tampering
with the ignorant classes; men who are not upholding the acts of Caesar but
those of Antonius; who are led away by the unlimited occupation of the Campanian
district; and who I marvel are not somewhat ashamed when they see that they have
actors and actresses for their neighbors.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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