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Now who is there who does not see that by this decree Antonius has been adjudged
to be an enemy? For what else can we call him, when the senate decides that
extraordinary honors are to be devised for those men who are leading armies
against him? What? did not the Martial legion (which appears to me by some
divine permission to have derived its name from that god from whom we have heard
that the Roman people descended) decide by its resolutions that Antonius was an
enemy before the senate had come to any resolution? For if he be not an enemy,
we must inevitably decide that those men who have deserted the consul are
enemies. Admirably and seasonably, O Romans, have you by your cries sanctioned
the noble conduct of the men of the Martial legion, who have come over to the
authority of the senate, to your liberty, and to the whole republic; and have
abandoned that enemy and robber and parricide of his country.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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