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.
[27]
Was Cnaeus Domitius spurred on to seek to recover
his dignity, not by the death of his father, a most illustrious man, nor by the
death of his uncle, nor by the deprivation of his own dignity, but by my advice
and authority? Did I persuade Caius Trebonius? a man whom I should not have
ventured even to advise. On which account the republic owes him even a larger
debt of gratitude, because he preferred the liberty of the Roman people to the
friendship of one man, and because he preferred overthrowing arbitrary power to
sharing it. Was I the instigator whom Lucius Tillius Cimber followed? a man whom
I admired for having performed that action, rather than ever expected that he
would perform it; and I admired him on this account, that he was
unmindful of the personal kindnesses which he had received, but mindful of his
country. What shall I say of the two Servilii? Shall I call them Cascas, or
Ahalas? and do you think that those men were instigated by my authority rather
than by their affection for the republic? It would take a long time to go
through all the rest; and it is a glorious thing for the republic that they were
so numerous, and a most honourable thing also for themselves.
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.