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Brutus, therefore, bided
his time. For, as long as he saw you endure every thing, he himself behaved with
incredible patience; after that he saw you roused to a desire of liberty, he
prepared the means to protect you in your liberty.
But what a pest, and how great a pest was it which he resisted? For if Caius
Antonius had been able to accomplish what he intended in his mind (and he would
have been able to do so if the virtue of Marcus Brutus had not opposed his
wickedness), we should have lost Macedonia, Illyricum,
and Greece. Greece would have been a refuge for Antonius
if defeated, or a support to him in attacking Italy; which at present, being not only arrayed in arms, but
embellished by the military command and authority and troops of Marcus Brutus,
stretches out her right hand to Italy,
and promises it her protection. And the man who proposes to deprive him of his
army, is taking away a most illustrious honor, and a most trustworthy guard from
the republic.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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