M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, The fourteen orations against Marcus Antonius (Philippics), THE SECOND SPEECH OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SECOND PHILIPPIC., section 43

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[43] And what wages have you paid this rhetorician? Listen, listen, O conscript fathers, and learn the blows which are inflicted on the republic. You have assigned, O Antonius, two thousand acres¹ of land, in the Leontine district, to Sextus Clodius, the rhetorician, and those, too, exempt from every kind of tax, for the sake of putting the Roman people to such a vast expense that you might learn to be a fool. Was this gift, too, O you most audacious of men, found among Caesar's papers? But I will take another opportunity to speak about the Leontine and the Campanian district; where he has stolen lands from the republic to pollute them with most infamous owners. For now, since I have sufficiently replied to all his charges, I must say a little about our corrector and censor himself. And yet I will not say all I could, in order that if I have often to battle with him I may always come to the contest with fresh arms; and the multitude of his vices and atrocities will easily enable me to do so.

1 I have translated jugerum, “an acre,” because it is usually so translated, but in point of fact it was not quite two-thirds of an English acre. At the same time it was nearly three times as large as the Greek πλέθρον, which is often translated acre also.

M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.

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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AUGUSTA´LES
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), FASTI´GIUM
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), FLAMEN
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), LUDI ROMA´NI
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), TOGA
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