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For when the ambassadors have reported
what they certainly will report, that Antonius will not submit to you nor to the
senate, who then will be so worthless a citizen as to think him deserving of
being accounted a citizen? For at present there are men, few indeed, but still
more than there ought to be, or than the republic deserves that there should be,
who speak in this way,—“Shall we not even wait for the
return of the ambassadors?” Certainly the republic itself will force
them to abandon that expression and that pretense of clemency. On which account,
to confess the truth to you, O Romans, I have less striven today, and labored
all the less today, to induce the senate to agree with me in decreeing the
existence of a seditious war and ordering the apparel of war to be assumed. I
preferred having my sentiments applauded by every one in twenty day's time, to
having it blamed today by a few.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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