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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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Moved by these considerations, since the tribunes of the people have brought
forward a motion to insure that the senate shall be able to meet in safety on
the first of January, and that we may be able to deliver our sentiments on the
general welfare of the state with freedom, I give my vote that Caius Pansa and
Aulus Hirtius, the consuls elect, do take care that the senate be enabled to
meet in safety on the first of January; and, as an edict has been published by
Decimus Brutus, imperator and consul elect, I vote
that the senate thinks that Decimus Brutus, imperator and consul, deserves excellently well of the republic,
inasmuch as he is upholding the authority of the senate, and the freedom and
empire of the Roman people;
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