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This is what we have gained in the last twelve days, that the man whom no single
person except Cotyla was then found to defend, has now advocates, even of
consular rank. Would that they had all been asked their opinion before me
(although I have my suspicions as to what some of those men who will be asked
after me, are intending to say); I should find it easier to speak against them
if any argument appeared to have been advanced.
For there is an opinion in some quarters, that some one intends to propose to
decree Antonius that farther Gaul,
which Plancus is at present in possession of. What else is that but supplying an
enemy with all the arms necessary for civil war: first of all with the sinews of
war, money in abundance, of which he is at present destitute; and secondly, with
as much cavalry as he pleases? Cavalry do I say? He is a likely man to hesitate,
I suppose, to bring with him the barbarian nations;—a man who does not
see this is senseless; he who does see it, and still advocates such a measure,
is impious.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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