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On which account I
give my vote that those laws which Marcus Antonius is said to have carried were
all carried by violence, and in violation of the auspices; and that the people
is not bound by them. If Marcus Antonius is said to have carried any law about
confirming the acts of Caesar and abolishing the dictatorship forever, and of
leading colonies into any lands, then I vote that those laws be passed over
again, with a due regard to the auspices, so that they may bind the people. For
although they may be good measures which he passed irregularly and by violence,
still they are not to be accounted laws, and the whole audacity of this frantic
gladiator must he repudiated by our authority.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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