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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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And yet Caesar himself in some degree recommended you, o conscript fathers, not
to agree with him, when he said that he should have expressed quite different
sentiments, worthy both of himself and of the republic, if he had not been
hampered by his relationship to Antonius. He, then, is his uncle; are you his
uncles too, you who voted with him?
But on what did the dispute turn? Some men, in delivering their opinion, did not
choose to insert the word “war.” They preferred calling it
“tumult,” being ignorant not only of the state of affairs,
but also of the meaning of words.
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