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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 have not, O
Romans, to deal with a wicked and profligate man, but with an unnatural and
savage beast. And, since he has fallen into a well, let him be buried in it. For
if he escapes out of it, there will be no inhumanity of torture which it will be
possible to avoid. But he is at present hemmed in, pressed, and besieged by
those troops which we already have, and will soon be still more so by those
which in a few days the new consuls will levy. Apply yourselves then to this
business, as you are doing. Never have you shown greater unanimity in any cause;
never have you been so cordially united with the senate. And no wonder. For the
question now is not in what condition we are to live, but whether we are to live
at all, or to perish with torture and ignominy.
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