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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
THE THIRTEENTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE THIRTEENTH PHILIPPIC.
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And as the valor of the legions
has shown itself worthy of their most illustrious generals, the senate will with
great eagerness, now that the republic is recovered, bestow on our legions and
armies all the rewards which it formerly promised them. And as the Martial
legion was the first to engage with the enemy, and fought in such a manner
against superior numbers as to slay many and take some prisoners; and as they
shed their blood for their country without any shrinking; and as the soldiers of
the other legions encountered death with similar valor in defense of the safety
and freedom of the Roman people;—the senate does decree that Caius
Pansa and Aulus Hirtius, the consuls, imperators, one or both of them if it
seems good to them, shall see to the issuing of a contract for, and to the
erecting, the most honorable possible monument to those men who shed their blood
for the lives and liberties and fortunes of the Roman people, and for the city
and temples of the immortal gods; that for that purpose they shall order the
city quaestors to furnish and pay money, in order that it may be witness for the
everlasting recollection of posterity of the wickedness of our most cruel
enemies, and the godlike valor of our soldiers. And that the rewards which the
senate previously appointed for the soldiers, be paid to the parents or children
or wives or brothers of those men who in this war have fallen in defence of
their country; and that all honours be bestowed on them which should have been
bestowed on the soldiers themselves if those men had lived who gained the
victory then by death.”
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