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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
Matters were carried on yesterday, O Caius Pansa, in a more irregular manner than
the beginning of your consulship required. You did not appear to me to make
sufficient resistance to those men, to whom you are not in the habit of
yielding. For while the virtue of the senate was such as it usually is, and
while all men saw that there was war in reality, and some thought that the name
ought to be kept back; on the division, your inclination inclined to lenity. The
course which we proposed therefore was defeated, at your instigation, on account
of the harshness of the word war. That urged by Lucius Caesar, a most honorable
man, prevailed, which, taking away that one harsh expression, was gentler in its
language than in its real intention. Although he, indeed, before he delivered
his opinion at all, pleaded his relationship to Antonius in excuse for it. He
had done the same in my consulship, in respect of his sister's husband, as he
did now in respect of his sister's son; so that he was moved by the grief of his
sister, and at the same time he wished to provide for the safety of the
republic.
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