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Pompei SILONIS. Quale est ut perdamus
eloquentiam Ciceronis, fidem sequamur Antoni?
misericordiam tu istam uocas, supplicium sumptum
de Ciceronis ingenio? credamus Antonio, Cicero,
si bene illi pecunias crediderunt feneratores, si bene
pacem Brutus et Cassius. Hominem et uitio
naturae et licentia temporum insanientem, inter scenicos
amores sanguine ciuili luxuriantem: hominem qui
creditoribus suis oppignerauit rempublicam, cuius
gulae duorum principum bona, Caesaris ac
Pompei, non potuerunt satisfacere! Tuis utar Cicero
[p. 52]
uerbis: ‘cara est cuiquam salus quam aut dare aut
eripere potest Antonius?’
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