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‘“You have sent Capius into Syria.”’
Do you not see then, O Antonius, that the whole would is open to our party, but
that you have no spot, out of your own fortifications, where you can set your
foot?
‘“You have allowed Casca to discharge the office
of tribune.”’ What then? Were we to remove a man, as if he had
been Marallus1 or Caesetius, to
whom we own it, that this and many other things like this can never happen for
the future? ‘“You have taken away from the
Luperci the revenues which Julius Caesar assigned to them.”’
Does he dare to make mention of the Luperci? Does her not shudder at the
recollection of that day on which, smelling of wine, reeking with perfumes, and
naked, he dared to exhort the indignant Roman people to embrace slavery?
‘“You, by a resolution of the senate, have
removed the colonies of the veterans which had been legally
settled.”’
Have we removed them, or have we rather ratified a law which was passed in the
comitia centuriata? See, rather, whether it is
not you who have ruined these veterans (those at least who are ruined), and
settled them in a place from which they themselves now feel that they shall
never he able to make their escape.
1 These two were tribunes of the people, who had been dispossessed of their offices by Julius Caesar.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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