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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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Again, how insulting is he in his edicts! how ignorant! how like a barbarian! In
the first place, how has he heaped abuse on Caesar, in terms drawn from his
recollection of his own debauchery and profligacy For w here can we find anyone
who is chaster than this young man? Who is more modest? where have we among our
youth a more illustrious example of the old-fashioned strictness.? Who, on the
other hand, is more profligate than the man who abuses him? He reproaches the
son of Caius. Caesar with his want of noble blood, when even his natural1 father,
if he had been alive, would have been made consul. His mother is a woman of
Aricia. You might suppose he was
saving a woman of Tralles or of
Ephesus. Just see how we all who
come from the municipal towns—that is to say, absolutely all of
us—are looked down upon, for how few of us are there who do not come
from those towns? and what municipal town is there which he does not despise who
looks with such contempt on Aricia,
a town most ancient as to its antiquity; if we regard its rights, united with us
by treaty; if we regard its vicinity, almost close to us; if we regard the high
character of its inhabitants, most honorable?
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