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That, therefore, you might understand what sort of a consul he professed to be
himself, he reproached me with my consulship;—a consulship which, O
conscript fathers, was in name, indeed, mine, but in reality yours. For what did
I determine, what did I contrive, what did I do, that was not determined,
contrived, or done, by the counsel and authority and in accordance with the
sentiments of this order I And have you, O wise man, O man not merely eloquent
dared to find fault with these actions before the very men by whose counsel and
wisdom they were performed? But who was ever found before, except Publius
Clodius, to find fault with my consulship? And his fate indeed awaits you, as it
also awaited Caius Curio; since that is now in your house which was fatal to
each of them.1
1 Fulvia, who had been the wife of Clodius, and afterwards of Curio, was now the wife of Antonius.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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