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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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Your colleague was sitting in the rostra, clothed in
purple robe, on a golden chair, wearing a crown. You mount the steps; you
approach his chair, (if you were a priest of Pan, you ought to have recollected
that you were consul too;) you display a diadem; There is a groan over the whole
forum. Where did the diadem come from? For you had not picked it up when lying
on the ground, but you had brought it from home with you, a premeditated and
deliberately planned wickedness. You placed the diadem on his head amid the
groans of the people; he rejected it amid great applause. You then alone, O
wicked man, were found both to advise the assumption of kingly power, and to
wish to have him for your master who was your colleague and also to try what the
Roman people might be able to bear and to endure.
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