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I come now to Caius Caesar, O conscript fathers; if he had not existed, which of
us could have been alive now? That most intemperate of men, Antonius, was flying
from Brundusium to the city,
burning with hatred, with a disposition hostile to all good men, with an army.
What was there to oppose to his audacity and wickedness? We had not as yet any
generals, or any forces. There was no public council, no liberty; our necks were
at the mercy of his nefarious cruelty; we were all preparing to have recourse to
flight, though flight itself had no escape for us.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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