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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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Were you
at Narbo to be sick over the tables of
your entertainers while Dolabella was fighting your battles in Spain?
And what return was that of yours from Narbo? He even asked why I had returned so suddenly from my
expedition. I have just briefly explained to you, O conscript fathers, the
reason of my return. I was desirous, if I could, to be of service to the
republic even before the first of January. For, as to your question, how I had
returned in the first place, I returned by daylight, not in the dark, in the
second place, I returned in shoes, and in my Roman gown, not in any Gallic
slippers, or barbarian mantle. And even now you keep looking at me; and, as it
seems, with great anger. Surely you would be reconciled to me if you knew how
ashamed I am of your worthlessness, which you yourself are not ashamed of. Of
all the profligate conduct of all the world, I never saw, I never heard of any
more shameful than yours. You, who fancied yourself a master of the horse, when
you were standing for, or I should rather say begging for, the consulship for
the ensuing year, ran in Gallic slippers and a barbarian mantle about the
municipal towns and colonies of Gaul,
from which we used to demand the consulship when the consulship was stood for
and not begged for.
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