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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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In truth, when wicked men, being compelled by the revelations of the accomplices,
by their own handwriting, and by what I may almost call the voices of their
letters, were confessing that they had planned the parricidal destruction of
their country, and that they had agreed to burn the city, to massacre the
citizens, to devastate Italy, to
destroy the republic; who could have existed without being roused to defend the
common safety? especially when the senate and people of Rome had a leader then, and if they had one
now like he was then, the same fate would befall you which did overtake them.
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