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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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In the next place the province of
Gaul is praised, and is deservedly
complimented in most honorable language by the senate for resisting Antonius.
But if that province considered him the consul, and still refused to receive
him, it would be guilty of great wickedness. For all the provinces belong to the
consul of right, and are bound to obey him. Decimus Brutus, imperator and consul elect, a citizen born for the republic,
denies that he is consul; Gaul denies
it; all Italy denies it; the senate
denies it; you deny it. Who then thinks that he is consul except a few robbers?
Although even they themselves do not believe what they say; nor is it possible
that they should differ from the judgment of all men, impious and desperate men
though they be. But the hope of plunder and booty blinds their minds men whom no
gifts of money, no allotment of land nor even that interminable auction has
satisfied; who have proposed to themselves the city, the properties and fortunes
of all the citizens as their booty; and who, as long as there is something for
them to seize and carry off, think that nothing will be wanting to them;
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