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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
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However, we will say nothing of these things, which are
acts of a more hardy sort of villainy. Let us speak rather of his meaner
descriptions of worthlessness. You, with those jaws of yours, and those sides of
yours, and that strength of body suited to a gladiator, drank such quantities of
wine at the marriage of Hippia, that you were forced to vomit the next day in
the sight of the Roman people. O action disgraceful not merely to see, but even
to hear of! If this had happened to you at supper amid those vast drinking-cups
of yours, who would not have thought it scandalous? But in an assembly of the
Roman people, a man holding a public office, a master of the horse, to whom it
would have been disgraceful even to belch, vomiting filled his own bosom and the
whole tribunal with fragments of what he had been eating reeking with wine. But
he himself confesses this among his other disgraceful acts. Let us proceed to
his more splendid offenses.
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