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You vote a supplication; you do not
call Antonius an enemy. Very pleasing indeed to the immortal gods will our
thanksgivings be, very pleasing too the victims, after a multitude of our
citizens has been slain! “For the victory” says the proposer
of the supplication, “over wicked and audacious men.” For
that is what this most illustrious man calls them; expressions of blame suited
to lawsuits carried on in the city, not denunciations of searing infamy such as
deserved by internecine war. I suppose they are forging wills, or trespassing on
their neighbors, or cheating some young men; for it is men implicated in these
and similar practices that we are in the habit of terming wicked and audacious.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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