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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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“And moreover, as Quintus Caepio Brutus, proconsul, is occupying and
defending and protecting the province of Macedonia, and Illyricum, and all Greece, and is preserving them in safety; and as he is in
command of an army which he himself has levied and collected, he is at liberty
if he has need of any, to exact money for the use of the military service, which
belongs to the public, and can lawfully be exacted, and to use it, and to borrow
money for the exigencies of the war from whomsoever he thinks fit, and to exact
corn, and to endeavor to approach Italy
as near as he can with his forces. And as it has been understood from the
letters of Quintus Caepio Brutus, proconsul, that the republic has been greatly
benefited by the energy and valor of Quintus Hortensius, proconsul, and that all
his counsels have been in harmony with those of Quintus Caepio Brutus,
proconsul, and that that harmony has been of the greatest service to the
republic; Quintus Hortensius has acted well and becomingly, and in a manner
advantageous to the republic. And the senate decrees that Quintus Hortensius,
proconsul, shall occupy the province of Macedonia with his quaestors, or proquaestors and lieutenants,
until he shall have a successor regularly appointed by a resolution of the
senate.”
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