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12.
Should we rather call your camp the senate? In which you are the only man of
consular rank, you whose whole consulship is effaced from every monument and
register; and two praetors, who are afraid that they will lose something by
us,—a groundless fear. For we are maintaining all the grants made by
Caesar; and men of praetorian rank, Philadelphus Annius, and that innocent
Gallius; and men of aedilitian rank, he on whom I have spent so much of my lungs
and voice, Bestia, and that patron of good faith and cheater of his creditors,
Trebellius, and that bankrupt and ruined man Quintus Caelius, and that support
of the friends of Antonius Cotyla Varius, whom Antonius for his amusement caused
at a banquet to be flogged with thongs by the public slaves: Men of septemviral
rank, Lento and Nucula, and then that delight and darling of the Roman people,
Lucius Antonius. And for tribunes, first of all two tribunes elect, Tullus
Hostilius, who was so full of his privileges as to write up his name on the gate
of Rome; and who, when he found himself
unable to betray his general, deserted him. The other tribune elect is a man of
the name of Viscius; I know nothing about him; but I hear that he is (as they
say) a bold robber; who, however, they say was once a bathing-man at Pisaurum, and a very good hand at mixing the
water.
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Then there are others too, of
tribunitian rank: in the first place, Titus Plancus; a man who, if he had had
any affection for the senate, would never have burned the senate-house. Having
been condemned for which wickedness, he returned to that city by force of arms
from which he was driven by the power of the law. But, however, this is a case
common to him and to many others who are very unlike him. But this is quite true
which men are in the habit of saying of this. Plancus in a proverbial way, that
it is quite impossible for him to die unless his legs are broken.1 They are
broken, and still he lives. But this, like many others, is a service that has
been done us by Aquila.
1 That is, without being crucified as a slave.
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