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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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At first you answered fiercely enough; and that I may not
appear prejudiced against you in every particular, you used a tolerably just and
reasonable argument. “What does Caius Caesar demand money of me? why
should he do so, any more than I should claim it of him? Was he victorious
without my assistance? No; and he never could have been. It was I who supplied
him with a pretext for civil war; it was I who proposed mischievous laws; it was
I who took up arms against the consuls and generals of the Roman people, against
the senate and people of Rome, against
the gods of the country, against its altars and hearths, against the country
itself. Has he conquered for himself alone? Why should not those men whose
common work the achievement is, have the booty also in common?” You
were only claiming your right, but what had that to do with it? He was the more
powerful of the two.
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