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I have read the letter of Antonius which he sent to one of the septemviri, a thorough-paced scoundrel, a. colleague of his own.
“Look out, and see what you take a fancy to; what you do fancy you
shall certainly have.” See to what a man we are sending ambassadors;
against what a man we are delaying to make war; a man who does not even let us
draw lots for our fortunes, but hands us over to each man's caprice in such a
way, that he has not left even himself any thing untouched, or which has not
been promised to somebody. With this man, O conscript fathers, we must wage
war,—war, I say, and that instantly. We must reject the slow
proceedings of ambassadors.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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