This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
[34]
But one thing I am afraid you may not approve of. For if I had really been one of
their number, I should have not only got rid of the king, but of the kingly
power also out of the republic; and if I had been the author of the piece, as it
is said, believe me, I should not have been contented with one act, but should
have finished the whole play. Although, if it be a crime to have wished that
Caesar might be put to death, beware, I pray you, O Antonius, of what must be
your own case, as it is notorious that you, when at Narbo, formed a plan of the same sort with Caius Trebonius; and
it was on account of your participation in that design that, when Caesar was
being killed, we saw you called aside by Trebonius But I (see how far I am from
any horrible inclination toward,) praise you for having once in your life had a
righteous intention; I return you thanks for not having revealed the matter; and
I excuse you for not having accomplished your purpose.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.