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They recollect that on the nineteenth of December I was the
main cause of recovering our freedom; that from the first of January to this
hour I have never ceased watching over the republic; that day and night my house
and my ears have been open to the instruction and admonition of everyone; that
it has been by my letters, and my messengers, and my exhortations, that all men
in every part of the empire have been roused to the protection of our country;
that it is owing to the open declaration of my opinion ever since the first of
January, that no ambassadors have been ever sent to Antonius; that I have always
called him a public enemy, and this a war; so that I, who on every occasion have
been the adviser of genuine peace, have been a determined enemy to this pretense
of fatal peace.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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