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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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He writes, that Antonius is at Apollonia with seven cohorts, and he is
either by this time taken prisoner (may the gods grant it!) or, at all events,
like a modest man, he does not come near Macedonia, lest he should seem to act in opposition to the
resolution of the senate. A levy of troops has been held in Macedonia, by the great zeal and diligence of
Quintus Hortensius; whose admirable courage, worthy both of himself and of his
ancestors, you may clearly perceive from the letters of Brutus. The legion which
Lucius Piso, the lieutenant of Antonius, commanded, has surrendered itself to
Cicero, my own son. Of the cavalry, which was being led into Syria in two divisions, one division has left
the quaestor who was commanding it, in Thessaly, and has joined Brutus; and Cnaeus Domitius, a young
man of the greatest virtue and wisdom and firmness, has carried off the other
from the Syrian lieutenant in Macedonia. But Publius Vatinius, who has before this been
deservedly praised by us, and who is justly entitled to farther praise at the
present time, has opened the gates of Dyrrachium to Brutus, and has given him up his army.
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