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Therefore, that we may not have a number of decrees to pass every day, I give my
vote that the whole republic should be committed to the consuls; and that they
should have a charge given them to defend the republic, and to take care
“that the republic suffer no injury.” And I give my vote
that those men who are in the army of Antonius be not visited with blame, if
they leave him before the first of February.
If you adopt these proposals or mine, O conscript fathers, you will in a short
time recover the liberty of the Roman people and your own authority. But if you
act with more mildness, still you will pass those resolutions, but perhaps you
will pass them too late. As to the general welfare of the republic, on which
you, O consuls, have consulted us, I think that I have proposed what is
sufficient.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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