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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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However, these perhaps are trifling matters.
I ask now, why all on a sudden he became so gentle in the senate, after having
been so fierce in his edicts? For what was the object of threatening Lucius
Cassius, a most fearless tribune of the people, and a most virtuous and loyal
citizen, with death if he came to the senate? of expelling Decimus Carfulenus, a
man thoroughly attached to the republic, from the senate by violence and threats
of death? of interdicting Titus Canutius, by whom he had been repeatedly and
deservedly harassed by most legitimate attacks, not only from the temple itself,
but from all approach to it? What was the resolution of the senate which he was
afraid that they would stop by the interposition of their veto? That, I suppose,
respecting the supplication in honor of Marcus Lepidus, a most illustrious man!
Certainly there was a great danger of our hindering an ordinary compliment to a
man on whom we were every day thinking of conferring some extraordinary honor.
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