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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
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But what modest commands they are! We must be iron-hearted men, O conscript
fathers, to deny any thing to this man! “I give up both
provinces,” says he; “I disband my army; I am willing to
become a private individual.” For these are his very words. He seems
to be coming to himself. “I am willing to forget everything; to be
reconciled to every body.” But what does he add? “If you
give booty and land to my six legions, to my cavalry, and to my praetorian
cohort.” He even demands rewards for those men for whom, if he were to
demand pardon, he would be thought the most impudent of men. He adds farther,
“Those men to whom the lands have been given which he himself and
Dolabella distributed, are to retain them.”
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