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THE SIXTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE SIXTH PHILIPPIC. ADDRESSED TO THE PEOPLE.
THE THIRTEENTH ORATION OF M. T. CICERO AGAINST MARCUS ANTONIUS. CALLED ALSO THE THIRTEENTH PHILIPPIC.
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I therefore propose supplications of fifty days in the joint names of the three.
The reasons I will embrace in the words of the resolution, using the most
honorable language that I can devise.
But it becomes our good faith and our piety to show plainly to our most gallant
soldiers how mindful of their services and how grateful for them we are; and
accordingly I give my vote that our promises, and those pledges too which we
promised to bestow on the legions when the war was finished, be repeated in the
resolution which we are going to pass this day. For it is quite fair that the
honor of the soldiers, especially of such soldiers as those, should be united
with that of their commanders.
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