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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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Shall I be able to bear the sight of Lucius
Antonius? a man from whose cruelty I could not have escaped if I had not
defended myself behind the walls and gates and by the zeal of my own municipal
town. And this same Asiatic gladiator, this plunderer of Italy, this colleague of Lenti and Nucula, when be was giving some
pieces of gold to Aquila the centurion,
said that he was giving him some of my property. For, if he had said he was
giving him some of his own, he thought that the eagle itself would not have
believed it. My eyes can not—my eyes, I say, will not bear the sight
of Saxa, or Capho, or the two praetors, or the tribune of the people, or the two
tribunes elect, or Bestia, or Trebellius, or Titus Plancus. I can not look with
equanimity on so many, and those such foul, such wicked enemies; nor is that
feeling caused by any fastidiousness of mine, but by my affection for the
republic. But I will subdue my feelings, and keep my own inclinations under
restraint.
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