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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
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For how just will be the shame, how great will be the
disgrace, how great the infamy to the republic, if Marcus Antonius can deliver
his opinion in this assembly from the consular bench. For, to say nothing of the
countless acts of wickedness committed by him while consul in the city, during
which time he has squandered a vast amount of public money, restored exiles
without any law, sold our revenues to all sorts of people, removed provinces
from the empire of the Roman people, given men kingdoms for bribes, imposed laws
on the city by violence, besieged the senate, and, at other times, excluded it
from the senate-house by force of arms;—to say nothing, I say, of all
this, do you not consider this, that he who has attacked Mutina, a most powerful colony of the Roman
people—who has besieged a general of the Roman people, who is consul
elect—who has laid waste the lands,—do you not consider, I
say, how shameful and iniquitous a thing it would be for that man to be received
into this order, by which he has been so repeatedly pronounced an enemy for
these very reasons?
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