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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
THE THIRTEENTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE THIRTEENTH PHILIPPIC.
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For you well know that there has been a common
report for the last few days, that the day before the wine feast,1 that is to say,
on this very day, I was intending to come forth with the fasces as dictator. One would think that this story was invented
against some gladiator, or robber, or Catiline, and not against a man who had
prevented any such step from ever being taken in the republic. Was I, who
defeated and overthrew and crushed Catiline, when he was attempting such
wickedness, a likely man myself all on a sudden to turn out Catiline? Under what
auspices could I, an augur, take those fasces? How
long should I have been likely to keep them? to whom was I to deliver them as my
successor? The idea of any one having been so wicked as to invent such a tale!
or so mad as to believe it! In what could such a suspicion, or rather such
gossip, have originated?
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