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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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But Caesar, though many
years younger, armed veterans who were now eager to rest; he has embraced that
cause which was most agreeable to the senate, to the people, to all Italy,—in short, to gods and men.
And Pompeius came as a reinforcement to the extensive command and victorious
army of Lucius Sulla, Caesar had no one to join himself to. He of his own accord
was the author and executor of his plan of levying an army, and arraying a
defense for us. Pompeius found the whole Picene district hostile to the party of
his adversaries; but Caesar has levied an army against Antonius from men who
were Antonius's own friends, but still greater friends to liberty. It was owing
to the influence of Pompeius that Sulla was enabled to act like a king. It is by
the protection afforded us by Caesar that the tyranny of Antonius has been put
down.
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