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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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And if I did not come to a
senate-house in this state, he, on the first of September, said that he would
send carpenters and pull down my house. It was an important affair, I suppose,
that was to be discussed. He made some motion about a supplication. I attended
the day after. He himself did not come. I delivered my opinion about the
republic, not indeed with quite so much freedom as usual, but still with more
than the threats of personal danger to myself made perhaps advisable. But that
violent and furious man (for Lucius Piso had done the same thing with great
credit thirty days before) threatened me with his enmity, and ordered me to
attend the senate on the nineteenth of September. In the meantime he spent the
whole of the intervening seventeen days in the villa of Scipio, at Tibur, declaiming against me to make himself
thirsty. For this is his usual object in declaiming.
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