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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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You are acting admirably, therefore, O
tribunes of the people, in bringing forward a motion about the protection of the
senate and consuls; and most deservedly are we all bound to feel and to prove to
you the greatest gratitude for your conduct. For how can we be free from fear
and danger while menaced by such covetousness and audacity? And as for that
ruined and desperate man, what more hostile decision can be passed upon him than
has already been passed by his own friends? His most intimate friend, a man
connected with me too, Lucius Lentulus, and also Publius Naso, a man destitute
of covetousness, have shown that they think that they have no provinces assigned
them, and that the allotments of Antonius are invalid. Lucius. Philippus, a man
thoroughly worthy of his father and grandfather and ancestors, has done the
same. The same is the opinion of Marcus Turanius, a man of the greatest
integrity and purity of life. The same is the conduct of Publius Oppius and
those very men,—who, influenced by their friendship for Marcus
Antonius, have attributed to him more power than they would perhaps really
approve of,—Marcus Piso, my own connection, a most admirable man and
virtuous citizen, and Marcus Vehilius, a man of equal respectability, have both
declared that they would obey the authority of the senate.
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