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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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For the purpose of effecting the liberation of Decimus Brutus, the chief men of
the state were sent as ambassadors, to give notice to that enemy and parricidal
traitor to retire from Mutina; for
the sake of preserving that same Decimus Brutus, Aulus Hirtius, the consul, went
by lot to conduct the war; a man the weakness of whose bodily health was made up
for by the strength of his courage, and encouraged by the hope of victory;
Caesar, too, after he, with an army levied by his own resources and on his own
authority, had delivered the republic from the first dangers that assailed it,
in order to prevent any subsequent wicked attempts from being originated,
departed to assist in the deliverance of the same Brutus, and subdued some
family vexation which he may have felt by his attachment to his country.
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