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And we see that, even in the play, the
very man who said, “
“What care I though all men should hate my name,
So long as fear accompanies their hate?”
” found that it was a mischievous principle to act upon.
I wish, O Antonius, that you could recollect your grandfather, of whom, however,
you have repeatedly heard me speak. Do you think that he would have been willing
to deserve even immortality, at the price of being feared in consequence of his
licentious use of arms? What he considered life, what he considered prosperity,
was the being equal to the rest of the citizens in freedom, and chief of them
all in worth. Therefore, to say no more of the prosperity of your grandfather, I
should prefer that most bitter day of his death to the domination of Lucius
Cinna, by whom he was most barbarously slain.
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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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