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One man, the foulest of all banditti, is
waging an irreconcilable war against four consuls. He is at the same time
carrying on war against the senate and people of Rome. He is (although he is himself hastening to destruction;
through the disasters which he has met with) threatening all of us with
destruction, and devastation, and torments, and tortures. He declares that that
inhuman and savage act of Dolabella's, which no nation of barbarians would have
owned, was done by his advice; and what he himself would do in this city, if
this very Jupiter, who now looks down upon us assembled in his temple, had not
repelled him from this temple and from these walls, he showed, in the miseries
of those inhabitants of Parma, whom,
virtuous and honorable men as they were, and most intimately connected with the
authority of this order, and with the dignity of the Roman people, that villain
and monster, Lucius Antonius, that object of the extraordinary detestation of
all men, and (if the gods hate those whom they ought) of all the gods also,
murdered with every circumstance of cruelty.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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