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‘“And more advantageous for your
party.”’—“Parties,” you senseless
man, is a suitable expression for the forum, or the senate house. You have
declared a wicked war against your country; you are attacking Mutina; you are besieging the consul elect;
two consuls are carrying on war against you; and with them, Caesar, the
propraetor; all Italy is armed against
you; and then do you call yours “a party,” instead of a
revolt from the republic? ‘“To seek to avenge
the death of Trebonius, or that of Caesar.”’ We have avenged
Trebonius sufficiently by pronouncing Dolabella a public enemy. The death of
Caesar is best defended by oblivion and silence. But take notice what his object
is.—When he thinks that the death of Caesar ought to be revenged, he
is threatening with death, not those only who perpetrated that action, but those
also who were not indignant at it.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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