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With what eloquence, with what firm wisdom, with what a
weight of authority did Lucius Caesar your uncle, pronounce his opinion against
the husband of his own sister, your stepfather. But you, when you ought to have
taken him as your adviser and tutor in all your designs, and in the whole
conduct of your life, preferred being like your stepfather to resembling your
uncle. I, Who had no connection with him, acted by his counsels while I was
consul. Did you, who were his sister's son, ever once consult him on the affairs
of the republic?
But who are they whom Antonius does consult? O ye immortal gods, they are men
whose birthdays we have still to learn. Today Antonius is not coming down.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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