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Therefore, I will do now before you what I have just done in the senate. I call
you to witness, I give notice, I predict beforehand, that Marcus. Antonius will
do nothing whatever of those things which the ambassadors are commissioned to
command him to do; but that he will lay waste the lands, and besiege Mutina, and enlist soldiers, wherever he
can. For he is a man who has at all times despised the judgment and authority of
the senate, and your inclinations and power. Will he do what it has been just
now decreed that he shall do,—lead his army back across the Rubicon,
which is the frontier of Gaul, and yet
at the same time not come nearer Rome
than two hundred miles? Will he obey this notice? will he allow himself to be
confined by the river Rubicon, and by the limit of two hundred miles?
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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