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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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Lucius his brother, as being a man who has fought abroad, leads on his
household. Even suppose him to be in his senses himself, which he never will be;
still he will not be allowed by these men to act as if he were so. In the mean
time, time will be wasted. The preparations for war will cool. How is it that
the war has been protracted as long as this, if it is not by procrastination and
delay?
From the very first moment after the departure, or rather after the hopeless
flight of that bandit, that the senate could have met in freedom, I have always
been demanding that we should be called together. The first day that we were
called together, when the consuls elect were not present, I laid, in my opinion,
amidst the greatest unanimity on your part, the foundations of the republic;
later, indeed, than they should have been laid; for I could not do so before;
but still if no time had been lost after that day, we should have no war at all
now.
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