This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Table of Contents:
THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
[17]
And as Servius Sulpicius
Rufus, the son of Quintus of the Lemonian tribe, has deserved so well of the
republic as to be entitled to be complimented with all those distinctions; the
senate is of opinion, and thinks it for the advantage of the republic, that the
consule aedile should suspend the edict which usually prevails with respect to
funerals in the case of the funeral of Servius Sulpicius Rufus, the son of
Quintus of the Lemonian tribe; and that Caius Pansa, the consul, shall assign
him a place for a tomb in the Esquiline
plain, or in whatever place shall seem good to him, extending thirty feet in
every direction, where Servius Sulpicius may be buried; and that that shall be
his tomb, and that of his children and posterity, as having been a tomb most
deservedly given to them by the public authority.”
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.