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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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Wherefore you not only ought not to fear any
thing from him, but you ought to expect greater and better things still. Nor
ought you to apprehend with respect to a man who has already gone forward to
release Decimus Brutus from a siege, that the recollection of his domestic
injury will dwell in his bosom, and have more weight with him than the safety of
the city. I will venture even to pledge my own faith, O conscript fathers, to
you, and to the Roman people, and to the republic, which in truth, if no
necessity compelled me to do so, I would not venture to do, and in doing which
on slight grounds, I should be afraid of giving rise to a dangerous opinion of
my rashness in a most important business; but I do promise, and pledge myself,
and undertake, O conscript fathers, that Caius Caesar will always be such a
citizen as he is this day, and as we ought above all things to wish and desire
that he may turn out.
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